1 Corinthians 4:15
Though you may have thousands of instructors in the Faith of Christ, yet you have not many fathers. It was I who, through union with Christ Jesus, became your father by means of the Good News.
Twentieth Century New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
16Therefore I entreat you — Follow my example.
Cross References
Acts 18:4Every Sabbath Paul gave addresses in the Synagogue, trying to convince both Jews and Greeks.
1 Corinthians 3:6I planted, and Apollos watered, but it was God who caused the growth.
1 Corinthians 9:1Am I not free? Am I not an Apostle? Have I not seen our Lord Jesus? Are not you yourselves my work achieved in union with the Lord?
1 Corinthians 9:14So, too, the Master has appointed that those who tell the Good News should get their living from the Good News.
1 Corinthians 9:23And I do everything for the sake of the Good News, that with them I may share in its blessings.
Galatians 4:19You for whom I am again enduring a mother’s pains, till a likeness to Christ shall have been 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 →