1 Corinthians 4:15

KJV1611 – Modern English

For though you have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet you do not have many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.

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  • Gal 4:19 : 19 My little children, for whom I labor in birth again until Christ is formed in you,
  • 1 Cor 3:10 : 10 According to the grace of God which is given to me, as a wise master builder, I have laid the foundation, and another builds on it. But let every man be careful how he builds on it.
  • 1 Cor 9:1-2 : 1 Am I not an apostle? Am I not free? Have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord? 2 If I am not an apostle to others, yet certainly I am to you: for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.
  • 1 Cor 9:12 : 12 If others are partakers of this right over you, should not we even more? Nevertheless, we have not used this right, but endure all things lest we hinder the gospel of Christ.
  • 1 Cor 9:14 : 14 Even so the Lord has commanded that those who preach the gospel should live from the gospel.
  • 1 Cor 9:18 : 18 What then is my reward? That when I preach the gospel, I may present the gospel of Christ without charge, that I may not abuse my authority in the gospel.
  • 1 Cor 9:23 : 23 And this I do for the sake of the gospel, that I may be a partaker of it with you.
  • 2 Cor 3:1-3 : 1 Do we begin again to commend ourselves? Or do we need, as some others, letters of recommendation to you, or from you? 2 You are our letter written in our hearts, known and read by all men. 3 Forasmuch as you are clearly shown to be the letter of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not on tablets of stone, but on tablets of the heart.
  • 2 Tim 4:3 : 3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, they will gather to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
  • Titus 1:4 : 4 To Titus, my true son in our common faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Savior.
  • Phlm 1:10-12 : 10 I appeal to you for my son Onesimus, whom I have begotten while in my chains: 11 Who in time past was unprofitable to you, but now is profitable to you and to me. 12 I am sending him back to you. Therefore, receive him, that is, my own heart:
  • Phlm 1:19 : 19 I, Paul, am writing this with my own hand, I will repay it: although I do not say to you that you owe me even your own self besides.
  • Jas 1:18 : 18 Of His own will He brought us forth by the word of truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of His creatures.
  • 1 Pet 1:23 : 23 Having been born again, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the word of God which lives and abides forever,
  • 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 Timothy came from Macedonia, Paul was compelled by the Spirit and testified to the Jews that Jesus is the Christ. 6 And when they opposed him and blasphemed, he shook out his garments and said to them, 'Your blood be upon your own heads; I am clean. From now on I will go to the Gentiles.' 7 And he departed from there and entered a certain man's house named Justus, one who worshiped God, whose house was next to the synagogue. 8 And Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed on the Lord with all his household, and many of the Corinthians hearing believed and were baptized. 9 Then the Lord spoke to Paul in the night by a vision, 'Do not be afraid, but speak, and do not keep silent, 10 for I am with you, and no one will attack you to harm you, for I have many 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 Yes, I have made it my aim to preach the gospel, not where Christ was named, lest I should build on another man's foundation:
  • 1 Cor 3:6 : 6 I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the growth.

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