Verse 15

For though you may have ten thousand guardians in Christ, you do not have many fathers, because I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel.

Referenced Verses

  • Gal 4:19 : 19 My children– I am again undergoing birth pains until Christ is formed in you!
  • 1 Cor 3:10 : 10 According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master-builder I laid a foundation, but someone else builds on it. And each one must be careful how he builds.
  • 1 Cor 9:1-2 : 1 The Rights of an Apostle Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord? 2 If I am not an apostle to others, at least I am to you, for you are the confirming sign of my apostleship in the Lord.
  • 1 Cor 9:12 : 12 If others receive this right from you, are we not more deserving?But we have not made use of this right. Instead we endure everything so that we may not be a hindrance to the gospel of Christ.
  • 1 Cor 9:14 : 14 In the same way the Lord commanded those who proclaim the gospel to receive their living by the gospel.
  • 1 Cor 9:18 : 18 What then is my reward? That when I preach the gospel I may offer the gospel free of charge, and so not make full use of my rights in the gospel.
  • 1 Cor 9:23 : 23 I do all these things because of the gospel, so that I can be a participant in it.
  • 2 Cor 3:1-3 : 1 A Living Letter Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? We don’t need letters of recommendation to you or from you as some other people do, do we? 2 You yourselves are our letter, written on our hearts, known and read by everyone, 3 revealing that you are a letter of Christ, delivered by us, written not with ink but by the Spirit of the living God, not on stone tablets but on tablets of human hearts.
  • 2 Tim 4:3 : 3 For there will be a time when people will not tolerate sound teaching. Instead, following their own desires, they will accumulate teachers for themselves, because they have an insatiable curiosity to hear new things.
  • Titus 1:4 : 4 To Titus, my genuine son in a common faith. Grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Savior!
  • Phlm 1:10-12 : 10 I am appealing to you concerning my child, whose spiritual father I have become during my imprisonment, that is, Onesimus, 11 who was formerly useless to you, but is now useful to you and me. 12 I have sent him(who is my very heart) back to you.
  • Phlm 1:19 : 19 I, Paul, have written this letter with my own hand: I will repay it. I could also mention that you owe me your very self.
  • Jas 1:18 : 18 By his sovereign plan he gave us birth through the message of truth, that we would be a kind of firstfruits of all he created.
  • 1 Pet 1:23 : 23 You have been born anew, not from perishable but from imperishable seed, through the living and enduring word of God.
  • Acts 18:4-9 : 4 He addressed both Jews and Greeks in the synagogue every Sabbath, attempting to persuade them. 5 Now when Silas and Timothy arrived from Macedonia, Paul became wholly absorbed with proclaiming the word, testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ. 6 When they opposed him and reviled him, he protested by shaking out his clothes and said to them,“Your blood be on your own heads! I am guiltless! From now on I will go to the Gentiles!” 7 Then Paul left the synagogue and went to the house of a person named Titius Justus, a Gentile who worshiped God, whose house was next door to the synagogue. 8 Crispus, the president of the synagogue, believed in the Lord together with his entire household, and many of the Corinthians who heard about it believed and were baptized. 9 The Lord said to Paul by a vision in the night,“Do not be afraid, but speak and do not be silent, 10 because I am with you, and no one will assault you to harm you, because I have many people in this city.” 11 So he stayed there a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.
  • Rom 15:20 : 20 And in this way I desire to preach where Christ has not been named, so as not to build on another person’s foundation,
  • 1 Cor 3:6 : 6 I planted, Apollos watered, but God caused it to grow.