1 Corinthians 4:15-5:7

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 4:14-16

‘I write these things not to shame you but to admonish you, as my beloved children. For though you might have ten thousand tutors in Christ, yet you do not have many fathers. For in Christ Jesus I brought you to birth through the Gospel. I beg you therefore, you be imitators of me.’ Paul now assures them that he writes this way as a loving father, not as a despot. He is admonishing them sternly because of his love for them. They are his beloved children, and he wants the very best for them. For... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 4:14-21

Let Them Then Remember That He Fathered Them And That Through Him God’s Power Was and Is Revealed (4:14-21) read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 4:14-21

1 Corinthians 4:14-Ecclesiastes : . Fatherly Admonition, Entreaty, and Warning.— The tone of mingled severity, irony, and pathos disappears; yet the affection is combined with sternness, and he warns them not to presume on his mildness. He has no desire to shame them, but only to give them his paternal admonition. For he is their only begetter in Christ, though tutors in Christ they may have by the myriad. Let them take after him as good children should; he is sending Timothy, another of his... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 1 Corinthians 4:15

The great lesson of this text is: That people ought to have a tender respect for those ministers whom God hath hononred with their first conversion, and bringing them home to Christ. God may make use of a multitude of ministers to instruct Christians, and carry on his work in their souls to perfection; but he maketh use of some particular minister at first to convince them, and be an instrument in the changing of their hearts; such they ought to have a great value for, they are their spiritual... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - 1 Corinthians 4:14-21

CRITICAL NOTES1 Corinthians 4:14.—Irony dropped. Even in 1 Corinthians 4:6 it was “Brothers!” Now, “Beloved children!” Yet surely he did desire to make them ashamed of their bearing towards and estimate of himself? Yes. But not vindictively, nor so as to humiliate them before others. It was only such fatherly use of “shame,” as if in private between him and his erring children, as is really a most effectual “admonition” and educating force.1 Corinthians 4:15. Instructors.—More accurately... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 4:1-21

Chapter 4Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God ( 1 Corinthians 4:1 ).Ministers of Christ, the Greek word there is the under-rowers. They were the guys down in the bottom of the ship handling the oars, usually chained to the oars. And the fellow up on top would call the order for them to row and which side to row, the under-rowers. And so Paul uses that particular Greek word here, "We are the under-rowers of Christ. We're down on the... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - 1 Corinthians 4:1-21

1 Corinthians 4:1 . Let a man, yea every one of you, however biassed by parties, so account of us, though servants for your sakes, as ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God, as illustrated in Romans 16:25. Those mysteries are called “wisdom” in the preseding chapter; here they are regarded as the secrets and doctrines of the gospel; as mysteries hid in ages past, but now made manifest to us the apostles, prophets, and evangelists of Christ. If the ministers are... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - 1 Corinthians 4:14-21

1 Corinthians 4:14-21I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn you. Paul an example to parents and teachersHe proceeds--I. With love.1. Not as a schoolmaster, but as a father.2. Not to shame, but to warn.3. Not to threaten, but encourage (1 Corinthians 4:16).4. Not to punish, but to supply suitable help (1 Corinthians 4:17).II. With firmness.1. He discourages the perverse (1 Corinthians 4:18).2. Exposes the false.3. Exalts the true.4. Submits the choice of a rod or... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - 1 Corinthians 4:15

15 For 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. Ver. 15. Ten thousand instructors ] Gr. pedagogues, who often prove orbiliusses, sharp and severe above measure, Verberibus pluunt, colaphis grandinant. So did these Corinthian school masters, 2 Corinthians 11:20 . They were also too well skilled in the Doric dialect, crying, Give, give; and taught little more than elegant elocution. I have... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - 1 Corinthians 4:15

ye have: 2 Timothy 4:3 for: 1 Corinthians 3:6, 1 Corinthians 3:10, 1 Corinthians 9:1, 1 Corinthians 9:2, Acts 18:4-1 Kings :, Romans 15:20, 2 Corinthians 3:1-Leviticus :, Galatians 4:19, Titus 1:4, Philemon 1:10-2 Kings :, Philemon 1:19, James 1:18, 1 Peter 1:23 Reciprocal: 2 Kings 5:13 - My father Proverbs 7:24 - O Matthew 23:9 - call 1 Corinthians 4:14 - my 1 Corinthians 4:17 - who is 1 Corinthians 9:12 - are not 1 Corinthians 16:24 - love 2 Corinthians 6:13 - I speak 2 Corinthians 7:3 -... read more

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