1 Corinthians 4:15
For if you have ten thousand teachers in the Meshiha, yet not many fathers; for in Jeshu Meshiha I have begotten you through the gospel.
The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge
In The King James Version
In Context
14Not as to shame you write I these things, but as my beloved children I admonish (you).
16I entreat then of you that you be like me.
Cross References
Acts 18:4And he discoursed in the synagogue every shabath, and persuaded the Jihudoyee and the Heathens.
1 Corinthians 3:6I have planted, and Apollo watered, but Aloha made to increase.
1 Corinthians 9:1Am I not a son of freedom? am I not an apostle? or have I not seen Jeshu Meshiha our Lord? or are not you my work in my Lord?
1 Corinthians 9:14So also our Lord hath commanded, that they who his gospel preach, by his gospel shall live.
1 Corinthians 9:23But this I do that I may be a participator in the gospel.
Galatians 4:19My children, with whom I travail afresh until the Meshiha 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 →