1 Corinthians 4:15
For if ye should have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet not many fathers; for in Christ Jesus *I* have begotten you through the glad tidings.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
14Not [as] chiding do I write these things to you, but as my beloved children I admonish [you].
16I entreat you therefore, be my imitators.
Cross References
Acts 18:4And he reasoned in the synagogue every sabbath, and persuaded Jews and Greeks.
1 Corinthians 3:6*I* have planted; Apollos watered; but God has given the increase.
1 Corinthians 9:1Am I not free? am I not an apostle? have I not seen Jesus our Lord? are not *ye* my work in [the] Lord?
1 Corinthians 9:14So also the Lord has ordained to those that announce the glad tidings to live of the glad tidings.
1 Corinthians 9:23And I do all things for the sake of the glad tidings, that I may be fellow-partaker with them.
Galatians 4:19my children, of whom I again travail in birth until Christ shall have been 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 →