Verse 15

For even if you have countless teachers in Christ, you do not have many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, I became your father through the gospel.

Other Translations

• Bibeloversettelse fra KJV1611 og Textus Receptus

  For selv om dere har ti tusen veiledere i Kristus, har dere ikke mange fedre; for i Kristus Jesus har jeg født dere gjennom evangeliet.

• NT, oversatt fra gresk

  For selv om dere har titusener av lærere i Kristus, har dere ikke mange fedre; for i Kristus Jesus, ved evangeliet, har jeg født dere.

• Norsk King James

  For selv om dere har mange lærere i Kristus, har dere ikke mange fedre; for i Kristus Jesus har jeg født dere gjennom evangeliet.

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  For selv om dere har ti tusen lærere i Kristus, har dere likevel ikke mange fedre. I Kristus Jesus har jeg blitt deres far ved evangeliet.

• KJV/Textus Receptus til norsk

  For selv om dere har ti tusen lærere i Kristus, så har dere likevel ikke mange fedre: for i Kristus Jesus har jeg avlet dere gjennom evangeliet.

• Den norske oversettelsen av Det Nye Testamente

  For selv om dere har tusen oppdragere i Kristus, har dere ikke mange fedre; for i Kristus Jesus har jeg avlet dere gjennom evangeliet.

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  For om dere har ti tusen lærere i Kristus, så har dere ikke mange fedre; for i Kristus Jesus har jeg blitt far til dere gjennom evangeliet.

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  For selv om dere har ti tusen læremestere i Kristus, har dere ikke like mange fedre; for i Kristus Jesus har jeg gjort dere til mine barn gjennom evangeliet.

• gpt4.5-preview

  For selv om dere har ti tusen lærere i Kristus, har dere likevel ikke mange fedre. For i Kristus Jesus har jeg ved evangeliet blitt deres far.

• En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611 (mar 2025)

  For selv om dere har ti tusen lærere i Kristus, har dere likevel ikke mange fedre. For i Kristus Jesus har jeg ved evangeliet blitt deres far.

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  For om dere har ti tusen lærere i Kristus, har dere likevel ikke mange fedre. For i Kristus Jesus har jeg født dere gjennom evangeliet.

• NT, oversatt fra gresk Aug2024

  For om dere har tusen veiledere i Kristus, har dere ikke mange fedre. For i Kristus Jesus har jeg blitt deres far gjennom evangeliet.

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  Thi om I end havde ti tusinde Læremestere i Christo, have I dog ikke mange Fædre; thi jeg avlede eder i Christo Jesu ved Evangelium.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  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.

• KJV 1769 norsk

  For om dere skulle ha ti tusen lærere i Kristus, har dere ikke mange fedre: for i Kristus Jesus har jeg avlet dere gjennom evangeliet.

• KJV1611 - Moderne engelsk

  For though you have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet you do not have many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.

• King James Version 1611 (Original)

  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.

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  For selv om dere har ti tusen lærere i Kristus, har dere ikke mange fedre. For i Kristus Jesus er jeg blitt deres far gjennom evangeliet.

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  For om dere har tusen lærere i Kristus, har dere ikke mange fedre, for jeg har blitt deres far i Kristus Jesus gjennom evangeliet.

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  For selv om dere har tusenvis av veiledere i Kristus, har dere ikke mange fedre; for i Kristus Jesus har jeg født dere ved evangeliet.

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  For selv om dere hadde ti tusen lærere i Kristus, har dere ikke mer enn én far: for i Kristus Jesus har jeg født dere gjennom det gode budskapet.

• Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

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

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  For though ye haue ten thousande instructours in Christ yet haue ye not many fathers. For I haue begotten you in Christ Iesu thorow ye Gospell?

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  For though ye haue tenne thousand instructours in Christ, yet haue ye not many fathers: for in Christ Iesus I haue begotten you through the Gospel.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  For though ye haue ten thousande instructours in Christ, yet haue ye not many fathers: For in Christe Iesu I haue begotten you through the Gospell.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  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.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  For though you have ten thousand tutors in Christ, yet not many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, I became your father through the Gospel.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  for if a myriad of child-conductors ye may have in Christ, yet not many fathers; for in Christ Jesus, through the good news, I -- I did beget you;

• American Standard Version (1901)

  For though ye have ten thousand tutors in Christ, yet [have ye] not many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I begat you through the gospel.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  For even if you had ten thousand teachers in Christ, you have not more than one father: for in Christ Jesus I have given birth to you through the good news.

• World English Bible (2000)

  For though you have ten thousand tutors in Christ, yet not many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, I became your father through the Good News.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  For though you may have ten thousand guardians in Christ, you do not have many fathers, because I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel.

Referenced Verses

• Gal 4:19 : 19 My dear children, I am again suffering birth pains for you until Christ is formed in you.
• 1 Cor 3:10 : 10 According to the grace God has given me, like a wise master builder, I laid a foundation, and another is building on it. But each one should be careful how they build.
• 1 Cor 9:1-2 : 1 Am I not an apostle? Am I not free? Have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord? 2 If I am not an apostle to others, surely I am to you. For you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.
• 1 Cor 9:12 : 12 If others have this right to receive from you, shouldn’t we have it even more? But we have not used this right. Instead, we endure all things so that we will not be a hindrance to the gospel of Christ.
• 1 Cor 9:14 : 14 In the same way, the Lord has commanded that those who preach the gospel should receive their living from the gospel.
• 1 Cor 9:18 : 18 What then is my reward? It is that when I preach the gospel, I may offer it free of charge, so as not to make full use of my right in the gospel.
• 1 Cor 9:23 : 23 I do all this for the sake of the gospel, so that I may share in its blessings.
• 2 Cor 3:1-3 : 1 Are we beginning again to recommend ourselves? Or do we, like some, need letters of recommendation to you or from you? 2 You are our letter, written on our hearts, known and read by everyone. 3 It is clear that you are a letter of Christ, served by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.
• 2 Tim 4:3 : 3 For the time will come when people will not tolerate sound teaching, but according to their own desires, they will gather teachers for themselves to satisfy their itching ears.
• Titus 1:4 : 4 To Titus, my true child in our common faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Savior.
• Phlm 1:10-12 : 10 I appeal to you for my son Onesimus, whom I became a father to while in my chains. 11 Once he was useless to you, but now he is useful both to you and to me. 12 I am sending him back to you—he is my very heart.
• Phlm 1:19 : 19 I, Paul, write this with my own hand: I will repay it—not to mention that you owe me even your very self.
• Jas 1:18 : 18 By His own will He brought us forth by the word of truth, so that we might be a kind of firstfruits of His creation.
• 1 Pet 1:23 : 23 For you have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.
• Acts 18:4-9 : 4 Every Sabbath, he reasoned in the synagogue, trying to persuade both Jews and Greeks. 5 When Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was occupied with preaching, testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Messiah. 6 But when they opposed him and spoke abusively, he shook out his clothes in protest and said to them, 'Your blood is on your own heads. I am innocent of it. From now on I will go to the Gentiles.' 7 Then Paul left the synagogue and went to the house of a man named Titius Justus, a worshiper of God, whose house was next door to the synagogue. 8 Crispus, the synagogue leader, believed in the Lord together with his entire household. Many of the Corinthians who heard Paul believed and were baptized. 9 One night the Lord said to Paul in a vision, 'Do not be afraid, but keep on speaking and do not be silent.' 10 'For I am with you, and no one will attack or harm you, because I have many people in this city.' 11 So Paul stayed there for a year and six months, teaching them the word of God.
• Rom 15:20 : 20 It has always been my ambition to preach the gospel where Christ was not known, so that I would not be building on someone else’s foundation.
• 1 Cor 3:6 : 6 I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth.