1 Corinthians 4:15
Though you may have countless guides to bring you up in Christ, you do not have many fathers. For it was I who fathered you in Christ Jesus, through the gospel.
Treated in 8 passages across the library.
Where it is preached
- The Pilgrim's Progress ·
The Second Stage cites 1 Cor. 4:15
…Interpreter: The man whose picture this is, is one of a thousand: he can beget children, 1 Cor. 4:15, travail in birth with children, Gal. 4:19, and nurse them himself when they are born.…
- How to Bring Men to Christ ·
Dealing with the Willful and the Deluded cites 1 Cor. iv. 15
…be easily shown them that the language used does not fit baptism. Further than this, in 1 Cor. iv. 15, Paul says to the Corinthian Christians he had begotten them again through the gospel. If…
- The Fundamental Doctrines of the Christian Faith ·
The New Birth cites 1 Cor. 4:15
…word of God, which liveth and abideth." And Paul gives voice to the same great thought in 1 Cor. 4:15, where he says: "For though ye should have ten thousand tutors in Christ, yet have ye not…
- The Person and Work of the Holy Spirit ·
The Regenerating Work of the Holy Spirit cites 1 Corinthians 4:15
…heart is the soil, the Word of God is the seed ( Luke 8:11; 1 Peter 1:23; James 1:18; 1 Corinthians 4:15), every preacher or teacher of the Word is a sower, but the Spirit of God is the One who…
- The Ten Commandments ·
2.5 The Fifth Commandment cites 1 Cor 4: 15
…have ye not many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.’ 1 Cor 4: 15. The spiritual fathers are to be honoured in respect of their office. Whatever their…
- Selected Sermons of Jonathan Edwards ·
A Farewell Sermon cites 1 Cor. iv. 15
…whose conversion and eternal salvation they suppose God has made them the instrument of: 1 Cor. iv. 15. “For though you have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers…
- Lectures on Revivals of Religion ·
Lecture XII. How to Preach the Gospel cites 1 Cor. iv. 15
…righteousness as stars for ever and ever.” Here the work is ascribed to men. So also in 1 Cor. iv. 15. “For though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers…
- Institutes of the Christian Religion ·
Book 4, Chapter 1 — Of the True Church cites 1 Cor. 4:15
…of the Gospel he had begotten the Corinthians, who were the seals of his apostleship (1 Cor. 4:15); moreover, that his was not a ministry of the letter, which only sounded in the ear, but…