1 Corinthians 4:15
For, though myriads of tutors ye should have in Christ, yet not many fathers; for, in Christ Jesus, through means of the joyful message, I, begat you.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
14Not, to shame you, write I these things; but, as my beloved children, I admonish you.
16I beseech you, therefore,—become imitators of me.
Cross References
Acts 18:4And he began reasoning in the synagogue every sabbath, and was persuading both Jews and Greeks.
1 Corinthians 3:6I, planted, Apollos, watered,—but, God, caused to, grow.
1 Corinthians 9:1Am not free? Am I not an apostle? Jesus our Lord, have I not seen? Are not, ye, my work, in the Lord?
1 Corinthians 9:14Thus, also, hath the Lord, appointed—that, they who the glad message tell, should, of the glad-message, live.
1 Corinthians 9:23But, all things, am I doing, for the sake of the glad-message, that a joint-partaker thereof, I may become.
Galatians 4:19My dear children! for whom I, again, am in birth-pains, 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 →