1 Corinthians 4:15

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.

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  • Gal 4:19 : 19 My little children, of whom I travail in birth ain 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 us, 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 Medonia, 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 pee: 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, tehing 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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 14 I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn you.

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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 ain until Christ be formed in you,

  • 26 For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.

  • Gal 4:6-7
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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.

    7 Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.

  • 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,

  • 1 Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.

  • 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.

  • Gal 4:11-13
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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;

  • 11 Therefore whether it were I or they, so we preach, and so ye believed.

  • Heb 12:8-9
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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?

  • 10 I beseech thee for my son Onesimus, whom I have begotten in my bonds:

  • 15 And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

  • 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.

  • 3 As I besought thee to abide still at Ephesus, when I went into Macedonia, that thou mightest charge some that they teach no other doctrine,

  • 1 Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand;

  • 15 Nevertheless, brethren, I have written the more boldly unto you in some sort, as putting you in mind, because of the grace that is given to me of God,

  • Gal 1:15-16
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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.