1 Corinthians 4:15

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.

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  • Gal 4:19 : 19 ¶ My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you,
  • 1 Cor 3:10 : 10 According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon.
  • 1 Cor 9:1-2 : 1 ¶ Am I not an apostle? am I not free? have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? are not ye my work in the Lord? 2 If I be not an apostle unto others, yet doubtless I am to you: for the seal of mine apostleship are ye in the Lord.
  • 1 Cor 9:12 : 12 If others be partakers of [this] power over you, [are] not we rather? Nevertheless we have not used this power; but suffer all things, lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ.
  • 1 Cor 9:14 : 14 Even so hath the Lord ordained that they which preach the gospel should live of the gospel.
  • 1 Cor 9:18 : 18 What is my reward then? [Verily] that, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel of Christ without charge, that I abuse not my power in the gospel.
  • 1 Cor 9:23 : 23 And this I do for the gospel's sake, that I might be partaker thereof with [you].
  • 2 Cor 3:1-3 : 1 ¶ Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some [others], epistles of commendation to you, or [letters] of commendation from you? 2 Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men: 3 [Forasmuch as ye are] manifestly declared to be the 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 fleshy tables of the heart.
  • 2 Tim 4:3 : 3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
  • Titus 1:4 : 4 To Titus, [mine] own son after the common faith: Grace, mercy, [and] peace, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour.
  • Phlm 1:10-12 : 10 I beseech thee for my son Onesimus, whom I have begotten in my bonds: 11 Which in time past was to thee unprofitable, but now profitable to thee and to me: 12 Whom I have sent again: thou therefore receive him, that is, mine own bowels:
  • Phlm 1:19 : 19 I Paul have written [it] with mine own hand, I will repay [it]: albeit I do not say to thee how thou owest unto me even thine own self besides.
  • Jas 1:18 : 18 Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
  • 1 Pet 1:23 : 23 Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.
  • Acts 18:4-9 : 4 And he reasoned in the synagogue every sabbath, and persuaded the Jews and the Greeks. 5 And when Silas and Timotheus were come from Macedonia, Paul was pressed in the spirit, and testified to the Jews [that] Jesus [was] Christ. 6 And when they opposed themselves, and blasphemed, he shook [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 entered into a certain [man's] house, named Justus, [one] that worshipped God, whose house joined hard to the synagogue. 8 And Crispus, the chief ruler of the synagogue, believed on the Lord with all his house; and many of the Corinthians hearing believed, and were baptized. 9 Then spake the Lord to 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 hurt thee: for I have much people in this city.› 11 And he continued [there] a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.
  • Rom 15:20 : 20 Yea, so have I strived to preach the gospel, not where Christ was named, lest I should build upon another man's foundation:
  • 1 Cor 3:6 : 6 I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.

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    16 Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me.

    17 ¶ For this cause have I sent unto you Timotheus, who is my beloved son, and faithful in the Lord, who shall bring you into remembrance of my ways which be in Christ, as I teach every where in every church.

  • 19 ¶ My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you,

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    6 And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.

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  • Eph 4:20-21
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    20 But ye have not so learned Christ;

    21 If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus:

  • 4 And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

  • 11 As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father [doth] his children,

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

    15 For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.

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    11 I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.

    12 ¶ Brethren, I beseech you, be as I [am]; for I [am] as ye [are]: ye have not injured me at all.

    13 Ye know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first.

  • 8 ¶ Wherefore, though I might be much bold in Christ to enjoin thee that which is convenient,

  • 20 Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men.

  • 1 Cor 3:1-2
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    1 ¶ And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, [even] as unto babes in Christ.

    2 I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able [to bear it], neither yet now are ye able.

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    1 ¶ Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort [you] by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, [so] ye would abound more and more.

    2 For ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus.

  • 12 For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which [be] the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.

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    5 For our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance; as ye know what manner of men we were among you for your sake.

    6 ¶ And ye became followers of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Ghost:

  • 14 Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not yours, but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

  • 9 ¶ But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.

  • 1 ¶ Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;

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    8 But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.

    9 Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected [us], and we gave [them] reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?

  • 13 Is Christ divided? was Paul crucified for you? or were ye baptized in the name of Paul?

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  • 17 ¶ For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect.

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    15 But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called [me] by his grace,

    16 To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood:

  • 7 ¶ But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children:

  • 1 ¶ Thou therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.

  • 11 But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man.

  • 15 Where is then the blessedness ye spake of? for I bear you record, that, if [it had been] possible, ye would have plucked out your own eyes, and have given them to me.

  • 16 Not now as a servant, but above a servant, a brother beloved, specially to me, but how much more unto thee, both in the flesh, and in the Lord?

  • 2 But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father.

  • 4 I rejoiced greatly that I found of thy children walking in truth, as we have received a commandment from the Father.

  • 22 But ye know the proof of him, that, as a son with the father, he hath served with me in the gospel.

  • 9 ‹And call no› [man] ‹your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven.›