1 Corinthians 4:15 Cross References - Geneva

¹⁵ For though ye haue tenne thousand instructours in Christ, yet haue ye not many fathers: for in Christ Iesus I haue begotten you through the Gospel.

⁴ And he disputed in the Synagogue euery Sabbath day, and exhorted the Iewes, and the Grecians. ⁵ Now when Silas and Timotheus were come from Macedonia, Paul, forced in spirit, testified to the Iewes that Iesus was the Christ. ⁶ And when they resisted and blasphemed, he shooke his raiment, and saide vnto them, Your blood be vpon your owne head: I am cleane: from henceforth will I goe vnto the Gentiles. ⁷ So he departed thence, and entred into a certaine mans house, named Iustus, a worshipper of God, whose house ioyned hard to the Synagogue. ⁸ And Crispus the chiefe ruler of the Synagogue, beleeued in the Lord with all his housholde: and many of the Corinthians hearing it, beleeued and were baptized. ⁹ Then saide the Lord to Paul in the night by a vision, Feare not, but speake, and holde not thy peace. ¹⁰ For I am with thee, and no man shall lay handes on thee to hurt thee: for I haue much people in this citie. ¹¹ So he continued there a yeere and six moneths, and taught ye worde of God among them.

²⁰ Yea, so I enforced my selfe to preach the Gospel, not where Christ was named, lest I should haue built on another mans foundation.

⁶ I haue planted, Apollos watred, but God gaue the increase.

¹⁰ According to the grace of God giuen to mee, as a skilfull master builder, I haue laide the foundation, and another buildeth thereon: but let euery man take heede how he buildeth vpon it.

¹ Am I not an Apostle? am I not free? haue I not seene Iesus Christ our Lord? are ye not my worke in the Lord? ² If I be not an Apostle vnto other, yet doutlesse I am vnto you: for ye are the seale of mine Apostleship in the Lord.

¹² If others with you bee partakers of this power, are not we rather? neuerthelesse, we haue not vsed this power: but suffer all things, that we should not hinder the Gospel of Christ.

¹⁴ So also hath the Lord ordeined, that they which preach ye Gospel, should liue of the Gospel.

¹⁸ What is my reward then? verely that when I preach the Gospel, I make the Gospel of Christ free, that I abuse not mine authoritie in ye Gospel.

²³ And this I doe for the Gospels sake, that I might be partaker thereof with you.

¹ Doe we begin to praise our selues againe? or neede we as some other, epistles of recommendation vnto you, or letters of recommendation from you? ² Yee are our epistle, written in our hearts, which is vnderstand, and read of all men, ³ In that yee are manifest, to be the Epistle of Christ, ministred by vs, and written, not with yncke, but with the Spirite of the liuing God, not in tables of stone, but in fleshly tables of the heart.

¹⁹ My litle children, of whome I trauaile in birth againe, vntill Christ be formed in you.

³ For the time will come, when they will not suffer wholesome doctrine: but hauing their eares itching, shall after their owne lustes get them an heape of teachers,

⁴ To Titus my naturall sonne according to the common faith, Grace, mercie and peace from God the Father, and from the Lord Iesus Christ our Sauiour.

¹⁰ I beseeche thee for my sonne Onesimus, whome I haue begotten in my bondes, ¹¹ Which in times past was to thee vnprofitable, but nowe profitable both to thee and to me, ¹² Whome I haue sent againe: thou therefore receiue him, that is mine owne bowels,

¹⁹ I Paul haue written this with mine owne hande: I will recompense it, albeit I doe not say to thee, that thou owest moreouer vnto me euen thine owne selfe.

¹⁸ Of his owne will begate hee vs with the woorde of trueth, that we shoulde be as the first fruites of his creatures.

²³ Being borne anewe, not of mortall seede, but of immortall, by the woorde of God, who liueth and endureth for euer.