1 Corinthians 4:15
For even if you have ten thousand guardians in Christ, you do not have many fathers. For I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel.
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In Context
14I do not write these things to shame you, but to correct you as my beloved children.
16So I urge you to be imitators of me.
Cross References
Acts 18:4So Paul reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath. He persuaded both Jews and Greeks.
1 Corinthians 3:6I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth.
1 Corinthians 9:1Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you not my workmanship in the Lord?
1 Corinthians 9:14In the same way, the Lord commanded that those who proclaim the gospel should get their living from the gospel.
1 Corinthians 9:23I do all things for the gospel's sake, so that I may participate in its blessings.
Galatians 4:19My little children, again I am in the pains of childbirth for you 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 →