1 Corinthians 4:16

Wherfore I desyre you to folowe me.

Tyndale New Testament

In The King James Version

Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me.

In Context

15For though ye have ten thousande instructours in Christ: yet have ye not many fathers. In Christ Iesu I have begotten you thorowe the gospell.

17For this cause have I sent vnto you Timotheus which is my deare sonne and faithfull in the Lorde which shall put you in remembraunce of my wayes which I have in Christ even as I teache every where in all congregacions.

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Cross References

1 Corinthians 11:1Folowe me as I do Christ.

Philippians 4:9which ye have both learned and receaved herde and also sene in me: those thynges do and the god of peace shalbe with you.

2 Thessalonians 3:9not but that we had auctoritie: but to make oure selves an insample vnto you to folowe vs.

1 Peter 5:3not as though ye were compelled therto but willyngly: not for the desyre of filthy lucre but of a good mynde. not as though ye were lordes over the parisshes: but that ye be a insample to the flocke.

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 →

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