1Cor 4:15 Cross References

1 Corinthians 4:15

15: For even if you had ten thousand others to teach you about Christ, you have only one spiritual father. For I became your father in Christ Jesus when I preached the Good News to you.

1 Corinthians 3:10

  1. Because of God's special favor to me, I have laid the foundation like an expert builder. Now others are building on it. But whoever is building on this foundation must be very careful.

Galatians 4:19

  1. But oh, my dear children! I feel as if I am going through labor pains for you again, and they will continue until Christ is fully developed in your lives.

1 Corinthians 9:23

  1. I do all this to spread the Good News, and in doing so I enjoy its blessings.

2 Timothy 4:3

  1. For a time is coming when people will no longer listen to right teaching. They will follow their own desires and will look for teachers who will tell them whatever they want to hear.

2 Corinthians 3:1

  1. Are we beginning again to tell you how good we are? Some people need to bring letters of recommendation with them or ask you to write letters of recommendation for them.
  2. But the only letter of recommendation we need is you yourselves! Your lives are a letter written in our hearts, and everyone can read it and recognize our good work among you.
  3. Clearly, you are a letter from Christ prepared by us. It is written not with pen and ink, but with the Spirit of the living God. It is carved not on stone, but on human hearts.

Philemon 1:10

  1. My plea is that you show kindness to Onesimus. I think of him as my own son because he became a believer as a result of my ministry here in prison.
  2. Onesimus hasn't been of much use to you in the past, but now he is very useful to both of us.
  3. I am sending him back to you, and with him comes my own heart.

Philemon 1:19

  1. I, Paul, write this in my own handwriting: "I will repay it." And I won't mention that you owe me your very soul!

Acts 18:4

  1. Each Sabbath found Paul at the synagogue, trying to convince the Jews and Greeks alike.
  2. And after Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul spent his full time preaching and testifying to the Jews, telling them, "The Messiah you are looking for is Jesus."
  3. But when the Jews opposed him and insulted him, Paul shook the dust from his robe and said, "Your blood be upon your own heads--I am innocent. From now on I will go to the Gentiles."
  4. After that he stayed with Titius Justus, a Gentile who worshiped God and lived next door to the synagogue.
  5. Crispus, the leader of the synagogue, and all his household believed in the Lord. Many others in Corinth also became believers and were baptized.

Titus 1:4

  1. This letter is written to Titus, my true child in the faith that we share. May God the Father and Christ Jesus our Savior give you grace and peace.

Romans 15:20

  1. My ambition has always been to preach the Good News where the name of Christ has never been heard, rather than where a church has already been started by someone else.

1 Corinthians 9:14

  1. In the same way, the Lord gave orders that those who preach the Good News should be supported by those who benefit from it.

1 Corinthians 3:6

  1. My job was to plant the seed in your hearts, and Apollos watered it, but it was God, not we, who made it grow.

James 1:18

  1. In his goodness he chose to make us his own children by giving us his true word. And we, out of all creation, became his choice possession.

1 Corinthians 9:18

  1. What then is my pay? It is the satisfaction I get from preaching the Good News without expense to anyone, never demanding my rights as a preacher.

1 Corinthians 9:12

  1. If you support others who preach to you, shouldn't we have an even greater right to be supported? Yet we have never used this right. We would rather put up with anything than put an obstacle in the way of the Good News about Christ.

1 Peter 1:23

  1. For you have been born again. Your new life did not come from your earthly parents because the life they gave you will end in death. But this new life will last forever because it comes from the eternal, living word of God.

1 Corinthians 9:1

  1. Do I not have as much freedom as anyone else? Am I not an apostle? Haven't I seen Jesus our Lord with my own eyes? Isn't it because of my hard work that you are in the Lord?
  2. Even if others think I am not an apostle, I certainly am to you, for you are living proof that I am the Lord's apostle.
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