1 Corinthians 4:15

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἐὰν γὰρ μυρίους παιδαγωγοὺς ἔχητε ἐν Χριστῷ, ἀλλʼ οὐ πολλοὺς πατέρας: ἐν γὰρ Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ διὰ τοῦ εὐαγγελίου ἐγὼ ὑμᾶς ἐγέννησα.

Transliteration

Ean gar myrious paidagōgous echēte en Christō, all' not pollous pateras: en gar Christō Iēsou dia tou euangeliou egō hymas egennēsa.

Grammar Details

• *Ean*: conjunction - if/even if
• *gar*: conjunction - for
• *myrious*: accusative, masculine, plural - ten thousand/countless
• *paidagōgous*: accusative, masculine, plural - tutors/guardians/instructors
• *echēte*: present subjunctive, 2nd plural, active - you might have
• *en Christō*: preposition + dative, masculine, singular - in Christ
• *all'*: conjunction - but
• *ou*: negative particle - not
• *pollous*: accusative, masculine, plural - many
• *pateras*: accusative, masculine, plural - fathers
• *Christō Iēsou*: dative, masculine, singular - in Christ Jesus
• *dia tou euangeliou*: preposition + article + genitive, neuter, singular - through the gospel
• *egō*: nominative, 1st singular - I
• *hymas*: accusative, 2nd plural - you
• *egennēsa*: aorist indicative, 1st singular, active - I begot/fathered

Word Meanings

• *myrious*: ten thousand/countless/innumerable
• *paidagōgous*: tutors/guardians/instructors/child-conductors
• *pateras*: fathers/ancestors
• *euangeliou*: gospel/good news
• *egennēsa*: begot/fathered/gave birth to

Referenced Verses

• Gal 4:19 : 19 My little children, of whom I am again in travail until {G3739} Christ be formed in you—
• 1 Cor 3:10 : 10 According to the grace of God which was given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder I laid a foundation; and another buildeth thereon. But let each man take heed how he buildeth thereon.
• 1 Cor 9:1-2 : 1 Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus {G5547} our Lord? Are not ye my work in the Lord? 2 If to others I am not an apostle, yet at least I am to you; for the seal of mine apostleship are ye in the Lord.
• 1 Cor 9:12 : 12 If others partake of [this] right over you, do not we yet more? Nevertheless we did not use this right; but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the gospel of Christ.
• 1 Cor 9:14 : 14 Even so did the Lord ordain that they that proclaim the gospel should live of the gospel.
• 1 Cor 9:18 : 18 What then is my reward? That, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel {G5547} without charge, so as not to use to the full my right in the gospel.
• 1 Cor 9:23 : 23 And I do all things for the gospel's sake, that I may be a joint partaker thereof.
• 2 Cor 3:1-3 : 1 Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? or need we, as do some, epistles of commendation to you or from you? 2 Ye are our epistle, written in our hearts, known and read of all men; 3 being made manifest that ye are an epistle of Christ, ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in tables [that are] hearts of flesh.
• 2 Tim 4:3 : 3 For the time will come when they will not endure the sound doctrine; but, having itching ears, will heap to themselves teachers after their own lusts;
• Titus 1:4 : 4 to Titus, my true child after a common faith: Grace {G1656} and peace from God the Father and {G2962} Christ Jesus our Saviour.
• Phlm 1:10-12 : 10 I beseech thee for my child, whom I have begotten in my bonds, Onesimus, 11 who once was unprofitable to thee, but now is profitable to thee and to me: 12 whom I have sent back to thee {G1161} in his own person, that is, my very heart:
• Phlm 1:19 : 19 I Paul write it with mine own hand, I will repay it: None that I say not unto thee that thou owest to me even thine own self besides.
• Jas 1:18 : 18 Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
• 1 Pet 1:23 : 23 having been begotten again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which liveth and abideth.
• Acts 18:4-9 : 4 And he reasoned in the synagogue {G2596} every sabbath, and persuaded Jews and Greeks. 5 But when {G5037} Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was constrained by the word, testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ. 6 And when they opposed themselves and blasphemed, he shook out his raiment and said unto them, Your blood [be] upon your own heads; I am clean: from henceforth I will go unto the Gentiles. 7 And he departed thence, and went into the house of a certain man named Titus Justus, one that worshipped God, whose house {G2258} joined hard to the synagogue. 8 And Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord with all his house; and many of the Corinthians hearing believed, and were baptized. 9 And the Lord said unto Paul in the night by a vision, Be not afraid, but speak and hold not thy peace: 10 for I am with thee, and no man shall set on thee to harm thee: for I have much people in this city. 11 And he dwelt there a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.
• Rom 15:20 : 20 yea, making it my aim so to preach the gospel, not where Christ was [already] named, that I might not build upon another man's foundation;
• 1 Cor 3:6 : 6 I planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.