Did I conceive all these people? Did I give them birth so you should tell me, “Carry them at your breast, as a nursing mother carries a baby,” to the land that you swore to give their ancestors?
1 Corinthians 4:15 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised For you may have countless instructors in Christ, but you don’t have many fathers. For I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition After all, though you should have ten thousand teachers (guides to direct you) in Christ, yet you do not have many fathers. For I became your father in Christ Jesus through the glad tidings (the Gospel). American Standard Version (1901) For though ye have ten thousand tutors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I begat you through the gospel. Common English Bible You may have ten thousand mentors in Christ, but you don’t have many fathers. I gave birth to you in Christ Jesus through the gospel, Catholic Public Domain Version For you might have ten thousand instructors in Christ, but not so many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, through the Gospel, I have begotten you. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For if you have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet not many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, by the gospel, I have begotten you. |
Did I conceive all these people? Did I give them birth so you should tell me, “Carry them at your breast, as a nursing mother carries a baby,” to the land that you swore to give their ancestors?
My aim is to preach the gospel where Christ has not been named, so that I will not build on someone else’s foundation,
It is from him that you are in Christ Jesus, who became wisdom from God for us #– #our righteousness, sanctification, and redemption #– #
Now I want to make clear for you, brothers and sisters, the gospel which I preached to you, which you received, on which you have taken your stand
According to God’s grace that was given to me, I have laid a foundation as a skilled master builder, and another builds on it. But each one is to be careful how he builds on it.
Now he who plants and he who waters are one, and each will receive his own reward according to his own labour.
If others have this right to receive benefits from you, don’t we even more? Nevertheless, we have not made use of this right; instead, we endure everything so that we will not hinder the gospel of Christ.
In the same way, the Lord has commanded that those who preach the gospel should earn their living by the gospel.
For if I preach the gospel, I have no reason to boast, because I am compelled to preach #– #and woe to me if I do not preach the gospel!
What then is my reward? To preach the gospel and offer it free of charge and not make full use of my rights in the gospel.
Now I do all this because of the gospel, so that I may share in the blessings.
For we are not proclaiming ourselves but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’s sake.
The law, then, was our guardian until Christ, so that we could be justified by faith.
My children, I am again suffering labour pains for you until Christ is formed in you.
For the time will come when people will not tolerate sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, will multiply teachers for themselves because they have an itch to hear what they want to hear.
To Titus, my true son in our common faith. Grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Saviour.
I, Paul, write this with my own hand: I will repay it #– #not to mention to you that you owe me even your very self.
By his own choice, he gave us birth by the word of truth so that we would be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
because you have been born again #– #not of perishable seed but of imperishable #– #through the living and enduring word of God.