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1 Corinthians 4:15

Weymouth NT

For even if you were to have ten thousand spiritual instructors–for all that you could not have several fathers. It is I who in Christ Jesus became your father through the Good News.

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making it my ambition, however, not to tell the Good News where Christ's name was already known, for fear I should be building on another man's foundation.

But you –and it is all God's doing– are in Christ Jesus: He has become for us a wisdom which is from God, consisting of righteousness and sanctification and deliverance;

But let me recall to you, brethren, the Good News which I brought you, which you accepted, and on which you are standing,

In discharge of the task which God graciously entrusted to me, I –like a competent master-builder– have laid a foundation, and others are building upon it. But let every one be careful how and what he builds.

I planted and Apollos watered; but it was God who was, all the time, giving the increase.

Now in aim and purpose the planter and the waterer are one; and yet each will receive his own special reward, answering to his own special work.

If other teachers possess that right over you, do not we possess it much more? Yet we have not availed ourselves of the right, but we patiently endure all things rather than hinder in the least degree the progress of the Good News of the Christ.

In the same way the Lord also directed those who proclaim the Good News to maintain themselves by the Good News.

If I go on preaching the Good News, that is nothing for me to boast of; for the necessity is imposed upon me; and alas for me, if I fail to preach it!

What are my wages then? The very fact that the Good News which I preach will cost my hearers nothing, so that I cannot be charged with abuse of my privileges as a Christian preacher.

And I do everything for the sake of the Good News, that I may share with my hearers in its benefits.

(For we do not proclaim ourselves, but we proclaim Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your bondservants for the sake of Jesus.)

So that the Law has acted the part of a tutor-slave to lead us to Christ, in order that through faith we may be declared to be free from guilt.

But now that this faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor-slave.

you for whom I am again, as it were, undergoing the pains of childbirth, until Christ is fully formed within you.

For a time is coming when they will not tolerate wholesome instruction, but, wanting to have their ears tickled, they will find a multitude of teachers to satisfy their own fancies;

To Titus my own true child in our common faith. May grace and peace be granted to you from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Saviour.

I Paul write this with my own hand–I will pay you in full. (I say nothing of the fact that you owe me even your own self.)

In accordance with His will He made us His children through the Message of the truth, so that we might, in a sense, be the Firstfruits of the things which He has created.

For you have been begotten again by God's ever-living and enduring word from a germ not of perishable, but of imperishable life.




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