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1 Corinthians 4:14-15 KJV
1 Corinthians · chapter 4 · verses 14–15
14I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn you. 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 4:14-15 · King James Version
1 Corinthians 4:14-15 in context
12And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:
13Being defamed, we intreat: we are made as the filth of the world, and are the offscouring of all things unto this day.
14I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn you.
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.
16Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me.
17For this cause have I sent unto you Timotheus, who is my beloved son, and faithful in the Lord, who shall bring you into remembrance of my ways which be in Christ, as I teach every where in every church.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- instructorspaidagōgosa tutorG3807 →
- thousandmyriosinnumerable, countless, ten thousandG3463 →
- begottengennaōof men who fathered children, to be born, to be begotten, of women giving birth to…G1080 →
- belovedagapētosbeloved, esteemed, dear, favourite, worthy of loveG27 →
- fatherspatērgenerator or male ancestor, either the nearest ancestor father of the corporeal nature…G3962 →
- throughdiathrough, of place, with, in, of time, throughout, during, of means, by, by the means of…G1223 →
- thougheanif, in caseG1437 →
- ChristchristosChrist = " anointed" , Christ was [and is], anointedG5547 →
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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 (Co1 4:14): I write not to shame you, but as my beloved children I warn you.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 14-16