1 Corinthians 4:15

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.

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  • Gal 4:19 : 19 My litle children, of whome I trauaile in birth againe, vntill Christ be formed in you.
  • 1 Cor 3:10 : 10 According to the grace of God giuen to mee, as a skilfull master builder, I haue laide the foundation, & another buildeth thereon: but let euery man take heede how he buildeth vpon it.
  • 1 Cor 9:1-2 : 1 Am I not an Apostle? am I not free? haue I not seene Iesus Christ our Lord? are ye not my worke in the Lord? 2 If I be not an Apostle vnto other, yet doutlesse I am vnto you: for ye are the seale of mine Apostleship in the Lord.
  • 1 Cor 9:12 : 12 If others with you bee partakers of this power, are not we rather? neuerthelesse, we haue not vsed this power: but suffer all things, that we should not hinder the Gospel of Christ.
  • 1 Cor 9:14 : 14 So also hath the Lorde ordeined, that they which preach ye Gospel, should liue of the Gospel.
  • 1 Cor 9:18 : 18 What is my reward then? verely that when I preach the Gospel, I make the Gospel of Christ free, that I abuse not mine authoritie in ye Gospel.
  • 1 Cor 9:23 : 23 And this I doe for the Gospels sake, that I might be partaker thereof with you.
  • 2 Cor 3:1-3 : 1 Doe we begin to praise our selues againe? or neede we as some other, epistles of recommendation vnto you, or letters of recommendation from you? 2 Yee are our epistle, written in our hearts, which is vnderstand, and read of all men, 3 In that yee are manifest, to be the Epistle of Christ, ministred by vs, and written, not with yncke, but with the Spirite of the liuing God, not in tables of stone, but in fleshly tables of the heart.
  • 2 Tim 4:3 : 3 For the time will come, when they will not suffer wholesome doctrine: but hauing their eares itching, shal after their owne lustes get them an heape of teachers,
  • Titus 1:4 : 4 To Titus my naturall sonne according to the common faith, Grace, mercie and peace from God the Father, and from the Lorde Iesus Christ our Sauiour.
  • Phlm 1:10-12 : 10 I beseeche thee for my sonne Onesimus, whome I haue begotten in my bondes, 11 Which in times past was to thee vnprofitable, but nowe profitable both to thee and to me, 12 Whome I haue sent againe: thou therefore receiue him, that is mine owne bowels,
  • Phlm 1:19 : 19 I Paul haue written this with mine owne hande: I will recompense it, albeit I doe not say to thee, that thou owest moreouer vnto me euen thine owne selfe.
  • Jas 1:18 : 18 Of his owne will begate hee vs with the woorde of trueth, that we shoulde be as the first fruites of his creatures.
  • 1 Pet 1:23 : 23 Being borne anewe, not of mortall seede, but of immortall, by the woorde of God, who liueth and endureth for euer.
  • Acts 18:4-9 : 4 And he disputed in the Synagogue euery Sabbath day, and exhorted the Iewes, and the Grecians. 5 Now when Silas & Timotheus were come from Macedonia, Paul, forced in spirit, testified to the Iewes that Iesus was the Christ. 6 And when they resisted and blasphemed, he shooke his raiment, & saide vnto them, Your blood be vpon your owne head: I am cleane: from henceforth will I goe vnto the Gentiles. 7 So he departed thence, & entred into a certaine mans house, named Iustus, a worshipper of God, whose house ioyned hard to the Synagogue. 8 And Crispus the chiefe ruler of the Synagogue, beleeued in the Lorde with all his housholde: and many of the Corinthians hearing it, beleeued and were baptized. 9 Then saide the Lord to Paul in the night by a vision, Feare not, but speake, and holde not thy peace. 10 For I am with thee, and no man shall lay handes on thee to hurt thee: for I haue much people in this citie. 11 So he continued there a yeere & six moneths, and taught ye worde of God among them.
  • Rom 15:20 : 20 Yea, so I enforced my selfe to preach the Gospel, not where Christ was named, lest I should haue built on another mans foundation.
  • 1 Cor 3:6 : 6 I haue planted, Apollos watred, but God gaue the increase.

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  • 14 I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloued children I admonish you.

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    16 Wherefore, I pray you, be ye folowers of me.

    17 For this cause haue I sent vnto you Timotheus, which is my beloued sonne, and faithfull in the Lord, which shall put you in remembrance of my wayes in Christ as I teache euery where in euery Church.

  • 19 My litle children, of whome I trauaile in birth againe, vntill Christ be formed in you.

  • 26 For ye are al the sonnes of God by faith, in Christ Iesus.

  • Gal 4:6-7
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    6 And because ye are sonnes, God hath sent foorth the Spirit of his Sonne into your heartes, which crieth, Abba, Father.

    7 Wherefore, thou art no more a seruant, but a sonne: now if thou be a sone, thou art also the heire of God through Christ.

  • Eph 4:20-21
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    20 But yee haue not so learned Christ,

    21 If so be yee haue heard him, and haue bene taught by him, as the trueth is in Iesus,

  • 4 And ye, fathers, prouoke not your children to wrath: but bring them vp in instruction and information of the Lord.

  • 11 As ye knowe how that we exhorted you, and comforted, and besought euery one of you (as a father his children)

  • 1 Be yee followers of mee, euen as I am of Christ.

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

    15 For ye haue not receiued the Spirit of bodage, to feare againe: but ye haue receiued the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry Abba, Father.

  • Gal 4:11-13
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    11 I am in feare of you, lest I haue bestowed on you labour in vaine.

    12 Be ye as I (for I am euen as you) brethren, I beseech you: ye haue not hurt me at all.

    13 And ye know, how through infirmitie of the flesh, I preached ye Gospel vnto you at the first.

  • 8 Wherefore, though I bee very bolde in Christ to commaunde thee that which is conuenient,

  • 20 Brethren, be not children in vnderstanding, but as concerning maliciousnes be children, but in vnderstanding be of a ripe age.

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    1 And I could not speake vnto you, brethren, as vnto spirituall men, but as vnto carnall, euen as vnto babes in Christ.

    2 I gaue you milke to drinke, & not meat: for yee were not yet able to beare it, neither yet nowe are yee able.

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    1 And furthermore we beseeche you, brethren, and exhort you in the Lord Iesus, that ye increase more and more, as ye haue receiued of vs, how ye ought to walke, and to please God.

    2 For ye knowe what commaundements we gaue you by the Lord Iesus.

  • 12 For when as concerning ye time ye ought to be teachers, yet haue ye neede againe that we teach you what are the first principles of the worde of God: and are become such as haue neede of milke, and not of strong meate.

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    5 For our Gospell was not vnto you in worde only, but also in power, and in the holy Ghost, and in much assurance, as ye know after what maner we were among you for your sakes.

    6 And ye became followers of vs, and of the Lorde, and receiued the worde in much affliction, with ioy of the holy Ghost,

  • 14 Behold, the thirde time I am ready to come vnto you, and yet will I not be slouthfull to your hinderance: for I seeke not yours, but you: for the children ought not to laye vp for the fathers, but the fathers for the children.

  • 9 But as touching brotherly loue, ye neede not that I write vnto you: for ye are taught of God to loue one another.

  • 1 Bee yee therefore followers of God, as deare children,

  • 11 Wherefore, whether it were I, or they, so we preach, and so haue ye beleeued.

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    8 If therefore ye be without correction, whereof al are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sonnes.

    9 Moreouer we haue had the fathers of our bodies which corrected vs, and we gaue them reuerence: should we not much rather be in subiection vnto the father of spirites, that we might liue?

  • 13 Is Christ deuided? Was Paul crucified for you? Either were ye baptized into the name of Paul?

  • 10 I beseeche thee for my sonne Onesimus, whome I haue begotten in my bondes,

  • 15 And that thou hast knowen the holy Scriptures of a childe, which are able to make thee wise vnto saluation, through the faith which is in Christ Iesus.

  • 17 For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preache the Gospel, not with wisdome of wordes, lest the crosse of Christ should be made of none effect.

  • 3 As I besought thee to abide still in Ephesus, when I departed into Macedonia, so doe, that thou mayest warne some, that they teach none other doctrine,

  • 1 Moreouer brethren, I declare vnto you the Gospel, which I preached vnto you, which ye haue also receiued, and wherein ye continue,

  • 15 Neuerthelesse, brethren, I haue somewhat boldly after a sort written vnto you, as one that putteth you in remembrance, through the grace that is giuen me of God,

  • Gal 1:15-16
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    15 But when it pleased God (which had separated me from my mothers wombe, and called me by his grace)

    16 To reueile his Sonne in me, that I should preach him among the Gentiles, immediatly I communicated not with flesh and blood:

  • 7 But we were gentle among you, euen as a nource cherisheth her children.

  • 1 Thou therefore, my sonne, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Iesus.

  • 11 Now I certifie you, brethren, that ye Gospel which was preached of me, was not after man.

  • 15 What was then your felicitie? for I beare you recorde, that if it had bene possible, ye would haue plucked out your owne eyes, and haue giuen them vnto me.

  • 16 Not now as a seruant, but aboue a seruant, euen as a brother beloued, specially to me: howe much more then vnto thee, both in the flesh and in the Lord?

  • 2 But is vnder tutours and gouernours, vntil the time appointed of the Father.

  • 4 I reioyced greatly, that I founde of thy children walking in trueth, as we haue receiued a commandement of the Father.

  • 22 But yee knowe the proofe of him, that as a sonne with the father, hee hath serued with me in the Gospel.

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