1 Corinthians 4:15
for if ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet ye have not many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you by the gospel.
1770 John Worsley NT
In The King James Version
In Context
14I do not write these things to shame you, but as my beloved children I admonish you:
16I beseech you therefore, be ye imitators of me.
Cross References
Acts 18:4And he discoursed in the synagogue every sabbath-day, and persuaded both Jews and 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? and are not ye my work in the Lord?
1 Corinthians 9:14So also the Lord hath ordained, that those who preach the Gospel should live of the Gospel.
1 Corinthians 9:23And this I do for the sake of the gospel, that I may be a fellow partaker of it.
Galatians 4:19My little children, of whom I do as it were travail in birth again,
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 →