1 Corinthians 4:15
For though all of you have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have all of you not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.
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In Context
14I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn you.
16Wherefore I plead to you, be all of you followers of me.
Cross References
Acts 18:4And he reasoned in the synagogue every sabbath, and persuaded the Jews and the Greeks.
1 Corinthians 3:6I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.
1 Corinthians 9:1Am I not an apostle? am I not free? have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? are not all of you my work in the Lord?
1 Corinthians 9:14Even so has the Lord ordained that they which preach the gospel should live of the gospel.
1 Corinthians 9:23And this I do for the gospel's sake, that I might be partaker thereof with you.
Galatians 4:19My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ 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 →