1 Corinthians 4:15 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁵For 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.

1 Corinthians 4:15 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Galatians 4:19
My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you,
1 Corinthians 3:10
According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon.
1 Corinthians 9:23
And this I do for the gospel's sake, that I might be partaker thereof with you.
1 Corinthians 9:14
Even so hath the Lord ordained that they which preach the gospel should live of the gospel.
Titus 1:4
To Titus, mine own son after the common faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 14-16)

Here Paul challenges their regard to him as their father. He tells them, 1. That what he had written was not for their reproach, but admonition; not with the gall of an enemy, but the bowels of a father (1 Cor. 4:14): I write not to shame you, but as my beloved children I warn you. Note, In reproving for sin, we should have a tender regard to the reputation, as well as the reformation, of the sinn…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 15)

15. ten thousand--implying that the Corinthians had more of them than was desirable. instructors--tutors who had the care of rearing, but had not the rights, or peculiar affection, of the father, who alone had begotten them spiritually. in Christ--Paul admits that these “instructors” were not mere legalists, but evangelical teachers. He uses, however, a stronger phrase of himself in begetting them…