1 Corinthians 4:15
For though you have ten thousand tutors in Christ Jesus, you can have but one father. For in Christ Jesus I begot you through the gospel.
Montgomery New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
14I am not writing this to shame you, but to admonish you, as my beloved children.
16I beg you then to imitate my example.
Cross References
Acts 18:4Every Sabbath he used to preach in the synagogue, and tried to persuade both Jews and Greeks.
1 Corinthians 3:6I planted, Apollos watered, but God made the seed grow.
1 Corinthians 9:1Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord?
1 Corinthians 9:14Even so the Lord ordained that those who proclaim the gospel should get their living by the gospel.
1 Corinthians 9:23And I am doing it all for the gospel’s sake, that I may become a copartner in it.
Galatians 4:19O my little children, of whom I travail again in birth until Christ be formed within 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 →