1 Corinthians 4:15
For though ye have a myriad of teachers in Messiah, yet not many fathers; for in Jesus Messiah, I have begotten you by preaching.
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
In Context
14I write these things, not to shame you; but I instruct you, as dear children.
16I beseech you, therefore, that ye be like me.
Cross References
Acts 18:4And he spoke in the synagogue every sabbath, and persuaded the Jews and Gentiles.
1 Corinthians 3:6I planted, and Apollos watered; but God produced the growth.
1 Corinthians 9:1Am I not a free man? Or, am I not a legate? Or, have I not seen Jesus Messiah our Lord? Or, have ye not been my work in my Lord?
1 Corinthians 9:14Thus also hath our Lord commanded, that they who proclaim his gospel, should live by his gospel.
1 Corinthians 9:23And this I do, that I may participate in the announcement.
Galatians 4:19Ye are my children, of whom I travail in birth again, till the Messiah 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 →