1 Corinthians 4:15

New Century Version

For though you may have ten thousand teachers in Christ, you do not have many fathers. Through the Good News I became your father in Christ Jesus,

Cross References

Numbers 11:12

I am not the father of all these people, and I didn’t give birth to them. So why do you make me carry them to the land you promised to our ancestors? Must I carry them in my arms as a nurse carries a baby?

Romans 15:20

I always want to preach the Good News in places where people have never heard of Christ, because I do not want to build on the work someone else has already started.

1 Corinthians 1:30

Because of God you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God. In Christ we are put right with God, and have been made holy, and have been set free from sin.

1 Corinthians 15:1

Now, brothers and sisters, I want you to remember the Good News I brought to you. You received this Good News and continue strong in it.

1 Corinthians 3:10

Using the gift God gave me, I laid the foundation of that house like an expert builder. Others are building on that foundation, but all people should be careful how they build on it.

1 Corinthians 3:6

I planted the seed, and Apollos watered it. But God is the One who made it grow.

1 Corinthians 3:8

The one who plants and the one who waters have the same purpose, and each will be rewarded for his own work.

1 Corinthians 9:12

If others have the right to get something from you, surely we have this right, too. But we do not use it. No, we put up with everything ourselves so that we will not keep anyone from believing the Good News of Christ.

1 Corinthians 9:14

In the same way, the Lord has commanded that those who tell the Good News should get their living from this work.

1 Corinthians 9:16

Telling the Good News does not give me any reason for bragging. Telling the Good News is my duty—something I must do. And how terrible it will be for me if I do not tell the Good News.

1 Corinthians 9:18

So what reward do I get? This is my reward: that when I tell the Good News I can offer it freely. I do not use my full rights in my work of preaching the Good News.

1 Corinthians 9:23

I do all this because of the Good News and so I can share in its blessings.

2 Corinthians 4:5

We do not preach about ourselves, but we preach that Jesus Christ is Lord and that we are your servants for Jesus.

Galatians 3:24

In other words, the law was our guardian leading us to Christ so that we could be made right with God through faith.

Galatians 3:25

Now the way of faith has come, and we no longer live under a guardian.

Galatians 4:19

My little children, again I feel the pain of childbirth for you until you truly become like Christ.

2 Timothy 4:3

because the time will come when people will not listen to the true teaching but will find many more teachers who please them by saying the things they want to hear.

Titus 1:4

To Titus, my true child in the faith we share: Grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Savior.

Philemon 1:19

I, Paul, am writing this with my own hand. I will pay it back, and I will say nothing about what you owe me for your own life.

James 1:18

God decided to give us life through the word of truth so we might be the most important of all the things he made.

1 Peter 1:23

You have been born again, and this new life did not come from something that dies, but from something that cannot die. You were born again through God’s living message that continues forever.