1 Corinthians 4:15
For if you have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet not many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, by the gospel, I have begotten you.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
14I write not these things to confound you; but I admonish you as my dearest children.
16Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me, as I also am of Christ.
Cross References
Acts 18:4And he reasoned in the synagogue every sabbath, bringing in the name of the Lord Jesus; and he persuaded the Jews and the Greeks.
1 Corinthians 3:6I have planted, Apollo watered, but God gave the increase.
1 Corinthians 9:1Am not I free? Am not I an apostle? Have not I seen Christ Jesus our Lord? Are not you my work in the Lord?
1 Corinthians 9:14So also the Lord ordained that they who preach the gospel, should live by the gospel.
1 Corinthians 9:23And I do all things for the gospel's sake: that I may be made partaker thereof.
Galatians 4:19My little children, of whom I am in labour again, until 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 →