1 Corinthians 4:15
For though ye have countless instructors in Christ, yet not many fathers. For in Christ Jesus I begot you through the good-news.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
14I do not write these things shaming you, but I warn you as my beloved children.
16I beseech you therefore, become followers of me.
Cross References
Acts 18:4And he was discoursing in the synagogue every Sabbath, and was persuading Jews and Greeks.
1 Corinthians 3:6I planted, Apollos watered, but God caused growth.
1 Corinthians 9:1Am I not an apostle? Am I not free? Have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? Are ye not my work in Lord?
1 Corinthians 9:14And so the Lord commanded those who proclaim the good-news to live from the good-news.
1 Corinthians 9:23And I do this for sake of the good-news, so that I might become a fellow participant of it.
Galatians 4:19My little children, of whom I suffer birth pains again until Christ is formed in you.
Matthew Henry on 1 Corinthians 4:15-17
Paul's Tenderness and Affection. ( a. d. 57.) 14 I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn you. 15 For though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel. 16 Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me. Here Paul challenges their regard to him as their father. He tells them, 1. That what he had written was not for their reproach, but admonition; not with the gall of an enemy, but the bowels of a… Read the whole commentary →