1 Corinthians 4:15
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15 For though you might have ten thousand guardians in Christ, you do not have many fathers. Indeed, in Christ Jesus I fathered you through the gospel.(A)
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Galatians 4:19
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19 My little children, for whom I am again in the pain of childbirth until Christ is formed in you,(A)
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1 Corinthians 3:10
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10 According to the grace of God given to me, like a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and someone else is building on it. Let each builder choose with care how to build on it.(A)
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1 Corinthians 9:23
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23 I do it all for the sake of the gospel, so that I might become a partner in it.
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1 Peter 1:23
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23 You have been born anew, not of perishable but of imperishable seed, through the living and enduring word of God.[a](A)
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- 1.23 Or through the word of the living and enduring God
James 1:18
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18 In fulfillment of his own purpose he gave birth to us by the word of truth, so that we would become a kind of first fruits of his creatures.(A)
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Philemon 19
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19 I, Paul, am writing this with my own hand: I will repay it. I say nothing about your owing me even your own self.
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Philemon 10-12
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10 I am appealing to you for my child, Onesimus, whose father I have become during my imprisonment.(A) 11 Formerly he was useless to you, but now he is indeed useful[a] to[b] you and to me. 12 I am sending him, that is, my own heart, back to you.[c]
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Titus 1:4
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4 To Titus, my true child[a] in the faith we share:
Grace[b] and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Savior.(A)
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2 Timothy 4:3
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3 For the time is coming when people will not put up with sound teaching, but, having their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own desires(A)
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2 Corinthians 3:1-3
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Ministers of the New Covenant
3 Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Surely we do not need, as some do, letters of recommendation to you or from you, do we?(A) 2 You yourselves are our letter, written on our hearts, known and read by all, 3 and you show that you are a letter of Christ, prepared by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets that are human hearts.[a](B)
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- 3.3 Gk hearts of flesh
1 Corinthians 9:18
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18 What then is my wage? Just this: that in my proclamation I may make the gospel free of charge, so as not to make full use of my rights in the gospel.
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1 Corinthians 9:14
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14 In the same way, the Lord commanded that those who proclaim the gospel should get their living by the gospel.(A)
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1 Corinthians 9:12
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12 If others share this rightful claim on you, do not we still more?
Nevertheless, we have not made use of this right, but we endure anything rather than put an obstacle in the way of the gospel of Christ.(A)
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1 Corinthians 9:1-2
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The Rights of an Apostle
9 Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord?(A) 2 If I am not an apostle to others, at least I am to you, for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.(B)
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1 Corinthians 3:6
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6 I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth.
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Romans 15:20
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20 Thus I make it my ambition to proclaim the gospel, not where Christ has already been named, so that I do not build on someone else’s foundation,(A)
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Acts 18:4-11
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4 Every Sabbath he would argue in the synagogue and would try to convince Jews and Greeks.(A)
5 When Silas and Timothy arrived from Macedonia, Paul was occupied with proclaiming the word,[a] testifying to the Jews that the Messiah[b] was Jesus.(B) 6 When they opposed and reviled him, in protest he shook the dust from his clothes[c] and said to them, “Your blood be on your own heads! I am innocent. From now on I will go to the gentiles.”(C) 7 Then he left the synagogue[d] and went to the house of a man named Titius[e] Justus, a worshiper of God; his house was next door to the synagogue.(D) 8 Crispus, the official of the synagogue, became a believer in the Lord, together with all his household, and many of the Corinthians who heard Paul became believers and were baptized.(E) 9 One night the Lord said to Paul in a vision, “Do not be afraid, but speak and do not be silent,(F) 10 for I am with you, and no one will lay a hand on you to harm you, for there are many in this city who are my people.”(G) 11 He stayed there a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.
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