1 Corinthians 4:15

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.

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  • Gal 4:19 : 19 My litle chyldren, of whom I trauayle in birth agayne, vntyll Christe be fashioned in you.
  • 1 Cor 3:10 : 10 Accordyng to the grace of God geuen vnto me, as a wise maister builder haue I layde the foundation, and another buyldeth theron. But let euery man take heede howe he buyldeth vpon.
  • 1 Cor 9:1-2 : 1 Am I not an Apostle? am I not free? haue I not seene Iesus Christe our Lord: Are ye not my worke in the Lorde? 2 If I be not an Apostle vnto other, yet doubtlesse am I vnto you: For the seale of myne Apostleship are ye in the Lorde.
  • 1 Cor 9:12 : 12 If others be partakers of this power wherfore are not we rather? Neuerthelesse, we haue not vsed this power: but suffer all thinges, lest we shoulde hinder the Gospel of Christ.
  • 1 Cor 9:14 : 14 Euen so hath the Lord ordayned, that they which preache the Gospell, shoulde lyue of the Gospell.
  • 1 Cor 9:18 : 18 What is my reward then? Uerily that when I preache the Gospell, I make the Gospell of Christ free, that I misuse not myne aucthoritie in the Gospell.
  • 1 Cor 9:23 : 23 And this I do for the Gospels sake, that I might haue my part therof.
  • 2 Cor 3:1-3 : 1 Do we begyn to prayse our selues agayne? Or neede we as some other of epistles of recomendation vnto you? or letters of recommendation from you? 2 Ye are our epistle written in our heartes, whiche is vnderstande and read of all men: 3 Forasmuche as ye declare that ye are the epistle of Christ ministred by vs, and written, not with ynke, but with the spirite of the lyuyng God, not in tables of stone, but in fleshly tables of the heart.
  • 2 Tim 4:3 : 3 For the tyme wyll come, when they shall not suffer wholsome doctrine: but after their owne lustes, shal they whose eares itche, get the an heape of teachers:
  • Titus 1:4 : 4 To Titus a natural sonne after the common fayth: Grace, mercie, peace, from God the father, and the Lorde Iesus Christe our sauiour.
  • Phlm 1:10-12 : 10 I beseche thee for my sonne Onesimus, whom I haue begotten in my bondes: 11 Which in tyme passed, was to thee vnprofitable, but nowe profitable to thee and to me. 12 Whom I haue sent agayne: Thou therefore receaue hym, that is, myne owne bowels,
  • Phlm 1:19 : 19 I Paul haue written it with myne owne hande, I wyll recompence it: Albeit, I do not say to thee, howe that thou owest vnto me euen thyne owne selfe.
  • Jas 1:18 : 18 Of his owne wyll begat he vs with the worde of trueth, that we shoulde be the first fruites of his creatures.
  • 1 Pet 1:23 : 23 For ye are borne a newe, not of mortal seede: but of immortal, by the worde of God, which lyueth and lasteth for euer.
  • Acts 18:4-9 : 4 And he disputed in the synagogue euery Sabboth, and exhorted the Iewes and the Grekes. 5 And when Silas and Timotheus were come fro Macedonia, Paul was constrayned by the spirite to testifie to the Iewes that Iesus was Christe. 6 And when they sayde contrary, and blasphemed, he shoke his rayment, & said vnto them: Your blood be vpon your owne heades. From hencefoorth wyll I go blamelesse vnto the gentiles. 7 And he departed thence, and entred into a certaine mans house, named Iustus, a worshipper of God, whose house ioyned harde to the synagogue. 8 And one Crispus the chiefe ruler of the synagogue beleued on the Lorde, with all his housholde: and many of the Corinthians hearyng, beleued, and were baptized. 9 Then spake the Lorde to Paul in the nyght by a vision: Be not afrayde, but speake, and holde not thy peace: 10 For I am with thee, and no man shal inuade thee to hurt thee. For I haue much people in this citie. 11 And he continued there a yere and sixe monethes, and taught the word of God among them.
  • Rom 15:20 : 20 So haue I enforced my selfe to preach the Gospell, not where Christe was named, lest I shoulde haue buylt vpon an other mans foundation.
  • 1 Cor 3:6 : 6 I haue planted, Apollo watered: but God gaue the encrease.

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  • 14 I write not these thynges to shame you, but as my beloued sonnes I warne you.

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    16 Wherfore, I desire you, be ye folowers of me.

    17 For this cause haue I sent vnto you Timotheus, whiche is my beloued sonne, & faythfull in the Lorde, which shall put you in remembraunce of my wayes which be in Christe, as I teache euery where in all Churches.

  • 19 My litle chyldren, of whom I trauayle in birth agayne, vntyll Christe be fashioned in you.

  • 26 For ye are all the chyldren of God by fayth in Christe Iesu.

  • Gal 4:6-7
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    6 Because ye are sonnes, God hath sent the spirite of his sonne into your heartes, crying, Abba, father.

    7 Wherfore thou art no more a seruaunt, but a sonne: If thou be a sonne, thou art also an heire of God, through Christ.

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    20 But ye haue not so learned Christe.

    21 Yf so be that ye haue hearde hym, and haue ben taught in hym, as the trueth is in Iesus,

  • 4 Fathers prouoke not your children to wrath: but bring them vp in instruction and information of the Lorde.

  • 11 As ye knowe, howe that as a father his chyldren, so we haue exhorted, comforted, and besought euery one of you,

  • 1 Be ye the folowers of me, euen as I am of Christe.

  • Rom 8:14-15
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    14 For as many as are led by the spirite of God, they are the sonnes of God.

    15 For ye haue not receaued the spirite of bondage agayne to feare: but ye haue receaued the spirite of adoption, wherby we cry, Abba, father.

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    11 I am in feare of you, lest I haue bestowed on you labour in vayne.

    12 Brethren, I besech you be as I am for I am as ye are. Ye haue not iniured me at all.

    13 Ye knowe howe through infirmitie of the fleshe, I preached the Gospell vnto you at the first:

  • 8 Wherfore, though I myght be much bolde in Christe, to inioyne thee that which is conuenient:

  • 20 Brethren, be not chyldren in wytte: Howbeit, as concerning maliciousnesse, be chyldren: but in wytte, be perfect.

  • 1 Cor 3:1-2
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    1 And I coulde not speake vnto you brethren, as vnto spirituall, but as vnto carnall eue as vnto babes in Christe.

    2 I gaue you mylke to drynke, and not meate: For ye then were not stronge, neither are ye as yet.

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    1 Furthermore we besech you brethren, & exhorte you by the Lorde Iesus, that ye encrease more and more, as ye haue receaued of vs, how ye ought to walke and to please God.

    2 For ye knowe what commaundementes we gaue you by the Lorde Iesus.

  • 12 For when as concernyng the tyme, ye ought to be teachers, yet haue ye nede againe that we teache you the first principles of the begynnyng of the worde of God, and are become such as haue nede of mylke, and not of strong meate.

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    5 For our Gospell came not vnto you in worde only, but also in power, and in the holy ghost, and in much certayntie, as ye knowe after what maner we were among you for your sake.

    6 And ye became folowers of vs, and of the Lorde, receauyng the worde in much affliction, with ioy of the holy ghost:

  • 14 Beholde, nowe the thirde tyme I am redy to come vnto you, and yet wyll I not be chargeable vnto you: For I seke not yours, but you. For the children ought not to lay vp for the fathers and mothers: but the fathers and mothers for the chyldren.

  • 9 But as touchyng brotherly loue, ye nede not that I write vnto you: For ye are taught of God to loue one another.

  • 1 Be ye therefore folowers of God, as deare chyldren:

  • 11 Therfore, whether it were I or they, so we preache, and so haue ye beleued.

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    8 But yf ye be without chastisment, wherof all are partakers, then are ye bastardes, and not sonnes.

    9 Furthermore, we haue had fathers of our fleshe, which corrected vs, and we gaue them reuerence: Shall we not then much rather be in subiection vnto the father of spirites, and lyue?

  • 13 Is Christe deuided? was Paul crucified for you? eyther were ye baptized in the name of Paul?

  • 10 I beseche thee for my sonne Onesimus, whom I haue begotten in my bondes:

  • 15 And that from an infant thou hast knowen the scriptures, which are able to make thee wyse vnto saluation, thorowe fayth which is in Christe Iesus.

  • 17 For Christe sent me not to baptize, but to preache the Gospell: not with wisedome of wordes, lest ye crosse of Christ shoulde be made of none effect.

  • 3 As I besought thee to abyde styll in Ephesus, when I departed into Macedonia so do that thou comaunde some that they teache no other doctrine:

  • 1 Moreouer brethren I declare vnto you, the Gospell which I preached vnto you, which also ye haue receaued, and wherin ye cotinue,

  • 15 Neuerthelesse brethren, I haue somewhat more boldly written vnto you, to put you in remembraunce, through the grace that is geuen me of God,

  • Gal 1:15-16
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    15 But when it pleased God, which seperated me from my mothers wombe, & called me by his grace,

    16 To reueale his sonne by me, that I shoulde by the Gospell preache hym among the Heathen: immediatly I communed not with fleshe and blood:

  • 7 When we myght haue ben in auctoritie, as the Apostles of Christe, but we were tender among you, euen as a nource cherissheth her chyldren,

  • 1 Thou therfore my sonne, be strong in the grace that is in Christe Iesus.

  • 11 I certifie you brethren, that the Gospell which was preached of me, was not after man.

  • 15 What is then your felicitie? For I beare you recorde, that yf it had ben possible, ye woulde haue plucked out your owne eyes, and haue geuen them to me.

  • 16 Not nowe as a seruaunt, but aboue a seruaunt, a brother beloued, specially to me: but howe much more vnto thee, both in the fleshe, and in the Lorde?

  • 2 But is vnder tuters and gouernours, vntyll the tyme appoynted of the father.

  • 4 I reioyced greatly, that I founde of thy chyldren walkyng in trueth, as we haue receaued a commaundement of the father.

  • 22 Ye knowe the profe of hym, that as a sonne with the father, he hath serued with me in the Gospell.

  • 9 And call no man your father, vpon the earth: for one is your father, which is in heauen.