1 Corinthians 4:15
For even if you were to have ten thousand spiritual instructors--for all that you could not have several fathers. It is I who in Christ Jesus became your father through the Good News.
Weymouth NT (1912)
In The King James Version
In Context
14I am not writing all this to shame you, but I am offering you advice as my dearly-loved children.
16I entreat you therefore to become like me.
Cross References
Acts 18:4But, Sabbath after Sabbath, he preached in the synagogue and tried to win over both Jews and Greeks.
1 Corinthians 3:6I planted and Apollos watered; but it was God who was, all the time, giving the increase.
1 Corinthians 9:1Am I not free? Am I not an Apostle? Can it be denied that I have seen Jesus, our Lord? Are not you yourselves my work in the Lord?
1 Corinthians 9:14In the same way the Lord also directed those who proclaim the Good News to maintain themselves by the Good News.
1 Corinthians 9:23And I do everything for the sake of the Good News, that I may share with my hearers in its benefits.
Galatians 4:19you for whom I am again, as it were, undergoing the pains of childbirth, until Christ is fully 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 →