1 Corinthians 4:15

New English Translation

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.

Cross References

Numbers 11:12

Did I conceive this entire people? Did I give birth to them, that you should say to me, ‘Carry them in your arms, as a foster father bears a nursing child,’ to the land which you swore to their fathers?

Romans 15:20

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 Corinthians 1:30

He is the reason you have a relationship with Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification and redemption,

1 Corinthians 15:1

Now I want to make clear for you, brothers and sisters, the gospel that I preached to you, that you received and on which you stand,

1 Corinthians 3:10

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 Corinthians 3:6

I planted, Apollos watered, but God caused it to grow.

1 Corinthians 3:8

The one who plants and the one who waters work as one, but each will receive his reward according to his work.

1 Corinthians 9:12

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 Corinthians 9:14

In the same way the Lord commanded those who proclaim the gospel to receive their living by the gospel.

1 Corinthians 9:16

For if I preach the gospel, I have no reason for boasting, because I am compelled to do this. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel!

1 Corinthians 9:18

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 Corinthians 9:23

I do all these things because of the gospel, so that I can be a participant in it.

2 Corinthians 4:5

For we do not proclaim ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your slaves for Jesus’ sake.

Galatians 3:24

Thus the law had become our guardian until Christ, so that we could be declared righteous by faith.

Galatians 3:25

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

Galatians 4:19

My children – I am again undergoing birth pains until Christ is formed in you!

2 Timothy 4:3

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

To Titus, my genuine son in a common faith. Grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Savior!

Philemon 1:19

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.

James 1:18

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 Peter 1:23

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