1 Corinthians 4:15
For if you have ten thousand instructors in Christ, but you have not many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.
1902 William Baxter Godbey NT
In The King James Version
In Context
14I do not write these things shaming you, but admonishing you as my beloved children.
16Therefore I exhort you, be ye imitators of me.
Cross References
Acts 18:4And he spoke in the synagogue every Sabbath, and persuaded both 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? have I not seen the Lord Jesus? are you not my work in the Lord?
1 Corinthians 9:14So also the Lord has commanded those preaching the gospel to live of the gospel.
1 Corinthians 9:23But I do all these things for the sake of the gospel, that I may be its fellow-partaker.
Galatians 4:19My children, for whom I again travail in pain until Christ may 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 →