1 Corinthians 4:15

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

for if a myriad of child-conductors ye may have in Christ, yet not many fathers; for in Christ Jesus, through the good news, I -- I did beget you;

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Referenced Verses

  • Gal 4:19 : 19 my little children, of whom again I travail in birth, till Christ may be formed in you,
  • 1 Cor 3:10 : 10 According to the grace of God that was given to me, as a wise master-builder, a foundation I have laid, and another doth build on `it',
  • 1 Cor 9:1-2 : 1 Am not I an apostle? am not I free? Jesus Christ our Lord have I not seen? my work are not ye in the Lord? 2 if to others I am not an apostle -- yet doubtless to you I am; for the seal of my apostleship are ye in the Lord.
  • 1 Cor 9:12 : 12 if others do partake of the authority over you -- not we more? but we did not use this authority, but all things we bear, that we may give no hindrance to the good news of the Christ.
  • 1 Cor 9:14 : 14 so also did the Lord direct to those proclaiming the good news: of the good news to live.
  • 1 Cor 9:18 : 18 What, then, is my reward? -- that proclaiming good news, without charge I shall make the good news of the Christ, not to abuse my authority in the good news;
  • 1 Cor 9:23 : 23 And this I do because of the good news, that a fellow-partaker of it I may become;
  • 2 Cor 3:1-3 : 1 Do we begin again to recommend ourselves, except we need, as some, letters of recommendation unto you, or from you? 2 our letter ye are, having been written in our hearts, known and read by all men, 3 manifested that ye are a letter of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God, not in the tablets of stone, but in fleshy tablets of the heart,
  • 2 Tim 4:3 : 3 for there shall be a season when the sound teaching they will not suffer, but according to their own desires to themselves they shall heap up teachers -- itching in the hearing,
  • Titus 1:4 : 4 to Titus -- true child according to a common faith: Grace, kindness, peace, from God the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour!
  • Phlm 1:10-12 : 10 I entreat thee concerning my child -- whom I did beget in my bonds -- Onesimus, 11 who once was to thee unprofitable, and now is profitable to me and to thee, 12 whom I did send again, and thou him (that is, my own bowels) receive,
  • Phlm 1:19 : 19 I, Paul did write with my hand, I -- I will repay; that I may not say that also thyself, besides, to me thou dost owe.
  • Jas 1:18 : 18 having counselled, He did beget us with a word of truth, for our being a certain first-fruit of His creatures.
  • 1 Pet 1:23 : 23 being begotten again, not out of seed corruptible, but incorruptible, through a word of God -- living and remaining -- to the age;
  • Acts 18:4-9 : 4 and he was reasoning in the synagogue every sabbath, persuading both Jews and Greeks. 5 And when both Silas and Timotheus came down from Macedonia, Paul was pressed in the Spirit, testifying fully to the Jews Jesus the Christ; 6 and on their resisting and speaking evil, having shaken `his' garments, he said unto them, `Your blood `is' upon your head -- I am clean; henceforth to the nations I will go on.' 7 And having departed thence, he went to the house of a certain one, by name Justus, a worshipper of God, whose house was adjoining the synagogue, 8 and Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue did believe in the Lord with all his house, and many of the Corinthians hearing were believing, and they were being baptized. 9 And the Lord said through a vision in the night to Paul, `Be not afraid, but be speaking and thou mayest be not silent; 10 because I am with thee, and no one shall set on thee to do thee evil; because I have much people in this city;' 11 and he continued a year and six months, teaching among them the word of God.
  • Rom 15:20 : 20 and so counting it honour to proclaim good news, not where Christ was named -- that upon another's foundation I might not build --
  • 1 Cor 3:6 : 6 I planted, Apollos watered, but God was giving growth;

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 14Not `as' putting you to shame do I write these things, but as my beloved children I do admonish,

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    16I call upon you, therefore, become ye followers of me;

    17because of this I sent to you Timotheus, who is my child, beloved and faithful in the Lord, who shall remind you of my ways in Christ, according as everywhere in every assembly I teach.

  • 19my little children, of whom again I travail in birth, till Christ may be formed in you,

  • 26for ye are all sons of God through the faith in Christ Jesus,

  • Gal 4:6-7
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    6and because ye are sons, God did send forth the spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying, `Abba, Father!'

    7so that thou art no more a servant, but a son, and if a son, also an heir of God through Christ.

  • Eph 4:20-21
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    20and ye did not so learn the Christ,

    21if so be ye did hear him, and in him were taught, as truth is in Jesus;

  • 4And the fathers! provoke not your children, but nourish them in the instruction and admonition of the Lord.

  • 11even as ye have known, how each one of you, as a father his own children, we are exhorting you, and comforting, and testifying,

  • 1Followers of me become ye, as I also `am' of Christ.

  • Rom 8:14-15
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    14for as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are the sons of God;

    15for ye did not receive a spirit of bondage again for fear, but ye did receive a spirit of adoption in which we cry, `Abba -- Father.'

  • Gal 4:11-13
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    11I am afraid of you, lest in vain I did labour toward you.

    12Become as I `am' -- because I also `am' as ye brethren, I beseech you; to me ye did no hurt,

    13and ye have known that through infirmity of the flesh I did proclaim good news to you at the first,

  • 8Wherefore, having in Christ much boldness to command thee that which is fit --

  • 20Brethren, become not children in the understanding, but in the evil be ye babes, and in the understanding become ye perfect;

  • 1 Cor 3:1-2
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    1And I, brethren, was not able to speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly -- as to babes in Christ;

    2with milk I fed you, and not with meat, for ye were not yet able, but not even yet are ye now able,

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    1As to the rest, then, brethren, we request you, and call upon you in the Lord Jesus, as ye did receive from us how it behoveth you to walk and to please God, that ye may abound the more,

    2for ye have known what commands we gave you through the Lord Jesus,

  • 12for even owing to be teachers, because of the time, again ye have need that one teach you what `are' the elements of the beginning of the oracles of God, and ye have become having need of milk, and not of strong food,

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    5because our good news did not come to you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and in much assurance, even as ye have known of what sort we became among you because of you,

    6and ye -- ye did become imitators of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much tribulation, with joy of the Holy Spirit,

  • 14Lo, a third time I am ready to come unto you, and I will not be a burden to you, for I seek not yours, but you, for the children ought not for the parents to lay up, but the parents for the children,

  • 9And concerning the brotherly love, ye have no need of `my' writing to you, for ye yourselves are God-taught to love one another,

  • 1Become, then, followers of God, as children beloved,

  • 11whether, then, I or they, so we preach, and so ye did believe.

  • Heb 12:8-9
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    8and if ye are apart from chastening, of which all have become partakers, then bastards are ye, and not sons.

    9Then, indeed, fathers of our flesh we have had, chastising `us', and we were reverencing `them'; shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of the spirits, and live?

  • 13Hath the Christ been divided? was Paul crucified for you? or to the name of Paul were ye baptized;

  • 10I entreat thee concerning my child -- whom I did beget in my bonds -- Onesimus,

  • 15and because from a babe the Holy Writings thou hast known, which are able to make thee wise -- to salvation, through faith that `is' in Christ Jesus;

  • 17For Christ did not send me to baptize, but -- to proclaim good news; not in wisdom of discourse, that the cross of the Christ may not be made of none effect;

  • 3according as I did exhort thee to remain in Ephesus -- I going on to Macedonia -- that thou mightest charge certain not to teach any other thing,

  • 1And I make known to you, brethren, the good news that I proclaimed to you, which also ye did receive, in which also ye have stood,

  • 15and the more boldly I did write to you, brethren, in part, as putting you in mind, because of the grace that is given to me by God,

  • Gal 1:15-16
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    15and when God was well pleased -- having separated me from the womb of my mother, and having called `me' through His grace --

    16to reveal His Son in me, that I might proclaim him good news among the nations, immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood,

  • 7But we became gentle in your midst, as a nurse may cherish her own children,

  • 1Thou, therefore, my child, be strong in the grace that `is' in Christ Jesus,

  • 11And I make known to you, brethren, the good news that were proclaimed by me, that it is not according to man,

  • 15what then was your happiness? for I testify to you, that if possible, your eyes having plucked out, ye would have given to me;

  • 16no more as a servant, but above a servant -- a brother beloved, especially to me, and how much more to thee, both in the flesh and in the Lord!

  • 2but is under tutors and stewards till the time appointed of the father,

  • 4I rejoiced exceedingly that I have found of thy children walking in truth, even as a command we did receive from the Father;

  • 22and the proof of him ye know, that as a child `serveth' a father, with me he did serve in regard to the good news;

  • 9and ye may not call `any' your father on the earth, for one is your Father, who is in the heavens,