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1 Corinthians 4:15

James Moffatt - New Testament

You may have thousands to superintend you in Christ, but you have not more than one father. It was I who in Christ Jesus became your father by means of the gospel.

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O my dear children, you with whom I am in travail over again till Christ be formed within you,

In virtue of my commission from God, I laid the foundation of the house like an expert master-builder. It remains for another to build on this foundation. Whoever he is, let him be careful how he builds.

And I do it all for the sake of the gospel, to secure my own share in it.

so the Lord's instructions were that those who proclaim the gospel are to get their living by the gospel?

You are born anew of immortal, not of mortal seed, by the living, lasting word of God;

It was his own will that we should be born by the Word of the truth, to be a kind of firstfruits among his creatures.

This is in my own handwriting: 'I Paul promise to refund it' — not to mention that you owe me, over and above, your very soul.

to Titus my lawful son in a faith we hold in common; grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Saviour.

for the time will come when people will decline to be taught sound doctrine and will accumulate teachers to suit themselves and tickle their own fancies;

And my reward? This, that I can preach the gospel free of charge, that I can refrain from insisting on all my rights as a preacher of the gospel.

If others share this right over you, why not we all the more? We did not avail ourselves of it, you say? No, we do not mind any privations if we can only avoid putting any obstacle in the way of the gospel of Christ.

I did the planting, Apollos did the watering, but it was God who made the seed grow.

my ambition always being to preach it only in places where there had been no mention of Christ's name, that I might not build on foundations laid by others,

This is the God to whom you owe your being in Christ Jesus, whom God has made our 'Wisdom,' that is, our righteousness and consecration and redemption;

Still, though planter and waterer are on the same level, each will get his own wage for the special work that he has done.

What I am proud of is not the mere preaching of the gospel; that I am constrained to do. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel!

Now, brothers, I would have you know the gospel I once preached to you, the gospel you received, the gospel in which you have your footing,

(It is Christ Jesus as Lord, not myself, that I proclaim; I am simply a servant of yours for Jesus' sake.)

the Law thus held us as wards in discipline, till such time as Christ came, that we might be justified by faith.

But faith has come, and we are wards no longer;




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