1 Corinthians 4:15
For though you have ten thousand tutors in Christ, yet you have not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
14I do not write these things that I may make you ashamed; but as my beloved children I admonish you.
16I exhort you, therefore, be imitators of me.
Cross References
Acts 18:4But on every sabbath, he reasoned in the synagogue, and persuaded the Jews and the Greeks.
1 Corinthians 3:6I planted, Apollos watered: but God made to grow.
1 Corinthians 9:1Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord?
1 Corinthians 9:14So, also, the Lord has ordained that those who preach the gospel should live by the gospel.
1 Corinthians 9:23And this I do for the gospel’s sake, that I may share its benefits with you.
Galatians 4:19My little children, for whom I again suffer the pains of gestation, till Christ be 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 →