1 Corinthians 4:15

Modern English Version

For if you were to have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet you do not have many fathers. In Christ Jesus I have become a father to you through the gospel.

Cross References

Numbers 11:12

Have I conceived all this people? Have I given them birth, that You should say to me, ‘Carry them in your bosom, as a nurse bears the nursing child,’ to the land which You swore to their fathers?

Romans 15:20

So I have strived to preach the gospel, not where Christ was named, so that I should not build on another man’s foundation.

1 Corinthians 1:30

But because of Him you are in Christ Jesus, whom God made unto us wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption.

1 Corinthians 15:1

Now, brothers, I declare to you the gospel which I preached to you, which you have received, and in which you stand.

1 Corinthians 3:10

According to the grace of God which has been given to me, as a wise master builder, I have laid the foundation, but another builds on it. Now let each one take heed how he builds on it.

1 Corinthians 3:6

I have planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the increase.

1 Corinthians 3:8

Now he who plants and he who waters are one, and each one will receive his own reward according to his own labor.

1 Corinthians 9:12

If others partake of this right over you, should not we instead? Nevertheless, we have not used this right, but suffer all things, lest we might hinder the gospel of Christ.

1 Corinthians 9:14

In the same way, the Lord has ordained that those who preach the gospel should live from the gospel.

1 Corinthians 9:16

Though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to boast of, for the requirement is laid upon me. Yes, woe unto me if I do not preach the gospel!

1 Corinthians 9:18

What is my reward then? Truly that when I preach the gospel, I may present the gospel of Christ without charge, so that I may not abuse my authority in the gospel.

1 Corinthians 9:23

This I do for the gospel’s sake, that I might partake of it with you.

2 Corinthians 4:5

For we do not preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord, and ourselves your servants for Jesus’ sake.

Galatians 3:24

So the law was our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

Galatians 3:25

But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor.

Galatians 4:19

My little children, of whom I labor in birth again until Christ is formed in you,

2 Timothy 4:3

For the time will come when people will not endure sound teaching, but they will gather to themselves teachers in accordance with their own desires, having itching ears,

Titus 1:4

To Titus, my own son in the common faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Savior.

Philemon 1:19

I, Paul, have written this with my own hand. I will repay it—not to mention that you owe me even your own self.

James 1:18

Of His own will He brought us forth with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of His creatures.

1 Peter 1:23

for you have been born again, not from perishable seed, but imperishable, through the word of God which lives and abides forever.