1 Corinthians 4:15

New American Bible - revised edition

Even if you should have countless guides to Christ, yet you do not have many fathers, for I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel.

Cross References

Numbers 11:12

Was it I who conceived all this people? or was it I who gave them birth, that you tell me to carry them at my breast, like a nurse carrying an infant, to the land you have promised under oath to their fathers?

Romans 15:20

Thus I aspire to proclaim the gospel not where Christ has already been named, so that I do not build on another’s foundation,

1 Corinthians 1:30

It is due to him that you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God, as well as righteousness, sanctification, and redemption,

1 Corinthians 15:1

Now I am reminding you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you indeed received and in which you also stand.

1 Corinthians 3:10

According to the grace of God given to me, like a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another is building upon it. But each one must be careful how he builds upon it,

1 Corinthians 3:6

I planted, Apollos watered, but God caused the growth.

1 Corinthians 3:8

The one who plants and the one who waters are equal, and each will receive wages in proportion to his labor.

1 Corinthians 9:12

If others share this rightful claim on you, do not we still more? Reason for Not Using His Rights. Yet we have not used this right. On the contrary, we endure everything so as not to place an obstacle to the gospel of Christ.

1 Corinthians 9:14

In the same way, the Lord ordered that those who preach the gospel should live by the gospel.

1 Corinthians 9:16

If I preach the gospel, this is no reason for me to boast, for an obligation has been imposed on me, and woe to me if I do not preach it!

1 Corinthians 9:18

What then is my recompense? That, when I preach, I offer the gospel free of charge so as not to make full use of my right in the gospel. All Things to All.

1 Corinthians 9:23

All this I do for the sake of the gospel, so that I too may have a share in it.

2 Corinthians 4:5

For we do not preach ourselves but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your slaves for the sake of Jesus.

Galatians 3:24

Consequently, the law was our disciplinarian for Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

Galatians 3:25

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

Galatians 4:19

My children, for whom I am again in labor until Christ be formed in you!

2 Timothy 4:3

For the time will come when people will not tolerate sound doctrine but, following their own desires and insatiable curiosity, will accumulate teachers

Titus 1:4

to Titus, my true child in our common faith: grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our savior. Titus in Crete.

Philemon 1:19

I, Paul, write this in my own hand: I will pay. May I not tell you that you owe me your very self.

James 1:18

He willed to give us birth by the word of truth that we may be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures. Doers of the Word.

1 Peter 1:23

You have been born anew, not from perishable but from imperishable seed, through the living and abiding word of God,