Even if you have ten thousand guardians in Christ, you do not have many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I became your father through the gospel. Cross References Numbers 11:12 Did I conceive all these people? Did I give them birth, so that You should tell me, 'Carry them in your bosom, as a nurse carries an infant,' to the land that You swore to give their fathers? 1 Corinthians 1:30 It is because of Him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God: our righteousness, holiness, and redemption. 1 Corinthians 3:6 I planted the seed and Apollos watered it, but God made it grow. 1 Corinthians 3:8 He who plants and he who waters are one in purpose, and each will be rewarded according to his own labor. 1 Corinthians 9:1 Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you yourselves not my workmanship in the Lord? 1 Corinthians 9:12 If others have this right to your support, shouldn't we have it all the more? But we did not exercise this right. Instead, we put up with anything rather than hinder the gospel of Christ. 1 Corinthians 9:14 In the same way, the Lord has prescribed that those who preach the gospel should receive their living from the gospel. 1 Corinthians 9:16 Yet when I preach the gospel, I have no reason to boast, because I am obligated to preach. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel! 1 Corinthians 15:1 Now, brothers, I want to remind you of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, and in which you stand firm. 2 Corinthians 4:5 For we do not proclaim ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake. Galatians 3:24 So the law became our guardian to lead us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith. Galatians 3:25 Now that faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian. Galatians 4:19 My children, for whom I am again in the pains of childbirth until Christ is formed in you, Philemon 1:10 I appeal to you for my child Onesimus, whose father I became while I was in chains. Treasury of Scripture For though you have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have you not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel. ye have. 2 Timothy 4:3 for. 1 Corinthians 3:6,10 1 Corinthians 9:1,2 Acts 18:4-11 |