1 Corinthians 4:15

Though they may have many teachers, Paul is uniquely their spiritual father because he brought them the gospel. It matters because the one who first proclaims Christ to us holds a special, irreplaceable bond.

Cross-references · 17

• Gal 4:19My little children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ is formed in you —
• 1 Cor 3:10According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another builds on it. But let each man be careful how he builds on it.
• 1 Cor 9:23Now I do this for the sake of the Good News, that I may be a joint partaker of it.
• 1 Cor 9:14Even so the Lord ordained that those who proclaim the Good News should live from the Good News.
• 1 Pet 1:23having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which lives and remains forever.
• 1 Cor 9:18What then is my reward? That, when I preach the Good News, I may present the Good News of Christ without charge, so as not to abuse my authority in the Good News.
• Rom 15:20yes, making it my aim to preach the Good News, not where Christ was already named, that I might not build on another’s foundation.
• Titus 1:4to Titus, my true child according to a common faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Savior.
• Phlm 1:19I, Paul, write this with my own hand: I will repay it (not to mention to you that you owe to me even your own self besides).
• 2 Cor 3:1–3Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? Or do we need, as do some, letters of commendation to you or from you?
• Jas 1:18Of his own will he gave birth to us by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.
• Phlm 1:10–12I beg you for my child, whom I have become the father of in my chains, Onesimus,
• 1 Cor 9:12If others partake of this right over you, don’t we yet more? Nevertheless we did not use this right, but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the Good News of Christ.
• Acts 18:4–11He reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath, and persuaded Jews and Greeks.
• 2 Tim 4:3For the time will come when they will not listen to the sound doctrine, but, having itching ears, will heap up for themselves teachers after their own lusts;
• 1 Cor 3:6I planted. Apollos watered. But God gave the increase.
• 1 Cor 9:1–2Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Haven’t I seen Jesus Christ, our Lord? Aren’t you my work in the Lord?

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