1 Corinthians 4:15
For though you have ten thousand tutors in Christ, you don’t have many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, I became your father through the Good News.
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In Context
14I don’t write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.
16I beg you therefore, be imitators of me.
Cross References
Acts 18:4He reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath and persuaded Jews and Greeks.
1 Corinthians 3:6I planted. Apollos watered. But God gave the increase.
1 Corinthians 9:1Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Haven’t I seen Jesus Christ, our Lord? Aren’t you my work in the Lord?
1 Corinthians 9:14Even so the Lord ordained that those who proclaim the Good News should live from the Good News.
1 Corinthians 9:23Now I do this for the sake of the Good News, that I may be a joint partaker of it.
Galatians 4:19My little children, of whom I am again in travail 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 →