1 Corinthians 4:15

New International Reader's Version

Suppose you had 10,000 believers in Christ watching over you. You still wouldn’t have many fathers. I became your father by serving Christ Jesus and telling you the good news.

Cross References

Numbers 11:12

Am I like a mother to them? Are they my children? Why do you tell me to carry them in my arms? Do I have to carry them the way a nurse carries a baby? Do I have to carry them to the land you promised? You promised the land to their people of long ago.

Romans 15:20

I have always wanted to preach the good news where Christ was not known. I don’t want to build on what someone else has started.

1 Corinthians 1:30

Because of what God has done, you belong to Christ Jesus. He has become God’s wisdom for us. He makes us right with God. He makes us holy and sets us free.

1 Corinthians 15:1

Brothers and sisters, I want to remind you of the good news I preached to you. You received it and have put your faith in it.

1 Corinthians 3:10

God has given me the grace to lay a foundation as a wise builder. Now someone else is building on it. But each one should build carefully.

1 Corinthians 3:6

I planted the seed. Apollos watered it. But God has been making it grow.

1 Corinthians 3:8

The one who plants and the one who waters have the same purpose. The Lord will give each of them a reward for their work.

1 Corinthians 9:12

Others have the right to receive help from you. Don’t we have even more right to do so? But we didn’t use that right. No, we have put up with everything. We didn’t want to keep the good news of Christ from spreading.

1 Corinthians 9:14

So those who preach the good news should also receive their living from their work. That is what the Lord has commanded.

1 Corinthians 9:16

But when I preach the good news, I can’t brag. I have to preach it. How terrible it will be for me if I do not preach the good news!

1 Corinthians 9:18

Then what reward do I get? Here is what it is. I am able to preach the good news free of charge. And I can do this without using all my rights as a person who preaches the good news.

1 Corinthians 9:23

I do all this because of the good news. And I want to share in its blessings.

2 Corinthians 4:5

The message we preach is not about ourselves. Our message is about Jesus Christ. We say that he is Lord. And we say that we serve you because of Jesus.

Galatians 3:24

So the law was put in charge of us until Christ came. He came so that we might be made right with God by believing in Christ.

Galatians 3:25

But now faith in Christ has come. So the law is no longer in charge of us.

Galatians 4:19

My dear children, I am in pain for you like I was when we first met. I have pain like a woman giving birth. And my pain will continue until Christ makes you like himself.

2 Timothy 4:3

The time will come when people won’t put up with true teaching. Instead, they will try to satisfy their own desires. They will gather a large number of teachers around them. The teachers will say what the people want to hear.

Titus 1:4

Titus, I am sending you this letter. You are my true son in the faith we share. May God the Father and Christ Jesus our Savior give you grace and peace.

Philemon 1:19

I’ll pay it back. I, Paul, am writing this with my own hand. I won’t even mention that you owe me your life.

James 1:18

God chose to give us new birth through the message of truth. He wanted us to be the first harvest of his new creation.

1 Peter 1:23

You have been born again by means of the living word of God. His word lasts forever. You were not born again from a seed that will die. You were born from a seed that can’t die.