1Cor 4:14-15, 2Cor 2:4-5, 7:12, 13:10 | ESV | STEP | I do not write these things to make you ashamed , but to admonish you as my beloved children .

1 Corinthians 4:14-15

14 I do not write these things ^ato make you ashamed, but to admonish you ^bas my beloved children. 15 For ^cthough you have countless ^{▼▼Greek you have ten thousand} guides in Christ, you do not have many fathers. For ^eI became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel.

2 Corinthians 2:4-5

4 For ^fI wrote to you out of much affliction and anguish of heart and with many tears, not to cause you pain but to let you know the abundant love that I have for you.

Forgive the Sinner

5 Now ^gif anyone has caused pain, ^hhe has caused it not to me, but ⁱin some measure—not to put it too severely—to all of you.

2 Corinthians 7:12

12 So although I wrote to you, it was not for the sake of the one ^jwho did the wrong, nor for the sake of the one who suffered the wrong, but in order that your earnestness for us might be revealed to you in the sight of God.

2 Corinthians 13:10

10 For this reason I write these things while I am away from you, that when I come ^kI may not have to be ^lsevere in my use of ^mthe authority that the Lord has given me for building up and not for tearing down.