1 Corinthians 4:15

The English Standar Version

For though you have countless guides in Christ, you do not have many fathers. For I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel.

Cross References

Numbers 11:12

Did I conceive all this people? Did I give them birth, that you should say to me, 'Carry them in your bosom, as a nurse carries a nursing child,' to the land that you swore to give their fathers?

Romans 15:20

and thus I make it my ambition to preach the gospel, not where Christ has already been named, lest I build on someone else's foundation,

1 Corinthians 1:30

He is the source of your life in Christ Jesus, whom God made our wisdom and our righteousness and sanctification and redemption.

1 Corinthians 15:1

Now I would remind you, brothers,[1] of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in 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, and someone else is building upon it. Let each one take care how he builds upon it.

1 Corinthians 3:6

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

1 Corinthians 3:8

He who plants and he who waters are one, and each will receive his wages according to his labor.

1 Corinthians 9:12

If others share this rightful claim on you, do not we even more? Nevertheless, we have not made use of this right, but we endure anything rather than put an obstacle in the way of the gospel of Christ.

1 Corinthians 9:14

In the same way, the Lord commanded that those who proclaim the gospel should get their living by the gospel.

1 Corinthians 9:16

For if I preach the gospel, that gives me no ground for boasting. For necessity is laid upon me. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel!

1 Corinthians 9:18

What then is my reward? That in my preaching I may present the gospel free of charge, so as not to make full use of my right in the gospel.

1 Corinthians 9:23

I do it all for the sake of the gospel, that I may share with them in its blessings.

2 Corinthians 4:5

For what we proclaim is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, with ourselves as your servants[2] for Jesus' sake.

Galatians 3:24

So then, the law was our guardian until Christ came, in order that we might be justified by faith.

Galatians 3:25

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

Galatians 4:19

my little children, for whom I am again in the anguish of childbirth until Christ is formed in you!

2 Timothy 4:3

For the time is coming when people will not endure sound[1] teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions,

Titus 1:4

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

Philemon 1:19

I, Paul, write this with my own hand: I will repay it -- to say nothing of your owing me even your own self.

James 1:18

Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.

1 Peter 1:23

since you have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God;