Suppose you had 10,000 believers in Christ watching over you. You still wouldn’t have many fathers. I became your father by serving Christ Jesus and telling you the good news.

你们学基督的，师傅虽有一万，为父的却是不多，因我在基督耶稣里用福音生了你们。

虽然你们在基督里有无数的导师，却没有许多父亲，因我是在基督耶稣里用福音生了你们。

虽然你们在基督里有无数的导师，却没有许多父亲，因我是在基督耶稣里用福音生了你们。

虽然有千万老师将基督的事教导你们，但父亲并不多，因为我借着福音在基督耶稣里成为你们的父亲。

纵然你们在基督里有上万的启蒙教师，可是父亲却不多，因为是我在基督耶稣里藉着福音生了你们。

其实就算你们在基督里有上万的导师，却没有很多的父亲，因为是我在基督耶稣里藉着福音生了你们。

你們學基督的，師傅雖有一萬，為父的卻是不多，因我在基督耶穌裏用福音生了你們。

雖然你們在基督裏有無數的導師，卻沒有許多父親，因我是在基督耶穌裏用福音生了你們。

雖然你們在基督裏有無數的導師，卻沒有許多父親，因我是在基督耶穌裏用福音生了你們。

雖然有千萬老師將基督的事教導你們，但父親並不多，因為我藉著福音在基督耶穌裡成為你們的父親。

縱然你們在基督裡有上萬的啟蒙教師，可是父親卻不多，因為是我在基督耶穌裡藉著福音生了你們。

在基督裏、你們縱然有上萬的童年導師，父親卻不多；因為是我在基督耶穌裏、藉着福音生了你們。

其實就算你們在基督裡有上萬的導師，卻沒有很多的父親，因為是我在基督耶穌裡藉著福音生了你們。

爾宗基督、雖有萬師、而無多父、蓋我在基督耶穌中、以福音生爾、

爾宗基督、雖萬師、無多父、我傳基督耶穌福音、以重生爾、

爾於基督雖有萬師、無有多父、蓋我以福音生爾於耶穌基督、

爾在同道中儘有千萬之導師、第愛爾以父母之愛者、恐亦不可多得耳。夫以福音之道使爾等因基督而得神生者、非我也耶？

Even if you had ten thousand guardians in Christ, you do not have many fathers, for in Christ Jesus I became your father through the gospel.

For though you have countless guides in Christ, you do not have many fathers. For I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel.

For even if you had ten thousand others to teach you about Christ, you have only one spiritual father. For I became your father in Christ Jesus when I preached the Good News to you.

For you may have countless instructors in Christ, but you don’t have many fathers. For I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel.

For if you were to have countless tutors in Christ, yet you would not have many fathers, for in Christ Jesus I became your father through the gospel.

For though you might have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet you do not have many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.

For though ye have ten thousand tutors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I begat you through the gospel.

For you can have 10,000 instructors in Christ, but you can’t have many fathers. For I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel.

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.

For though you may have ten thousand guardians in Christ, you do not have many fathers, because I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel.

For though you have ten thousand tutors in Christ, you don’t have many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, I became your father through the Good News.

God has given me the grace to lay a foundation as a wise builder. Now someone else is building on it. But each one should build carefully.

My dear children, I am in pain for you like I was when we first met. I have pain like a woman giving birth. And my pain will continue until Christ makes you like himself.

I do all this because of the good news. And I want to share in its blessings.

So those who preach the good news should also receive their living from their work. That is what the Lord has commanded.

I planted the seed. Apollos watered it. But God has been making it grow.

I am an old man, and I’m in prison. This is how I make my appeal to you for my son Onesimus. He became a son to me while I was being held in chains.Before that, he was useless to you. But now he has become useful to you and to me.I’m sending Onesimus back to you. All my love for him goes with him.

The time will come when people won’t put up with true teaching. Instead, they will try to satisfy their own desires. They will gather a large number of teachers around them. The teachers will say what the people want to hear.

God chose to give us new birth through the message of truth. He wanted us to be the first harvest of his new creation.

I’ll pay it back. I, Paul, am writing this with my own hand. I won’t even mention that you owe me your life.

Are we beginning to praise ourselves again? Some people need letters that speak well of them. Do we need those kinds of letters, either to you or from you?You yourselves are our letter. You are written on our hearts. Everyone knows you and reads you.You make it clear that you are a letter from Christ. You are the result of our work for God. You are a letter written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God. You are a letter written not on tablets made out of stone but on human hearts.

Titus, I am sending you this letter. You are my true son in the faith we share. May God the Father and Christ Jesus our Savior give you grace and peace.

Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Haven’t I seen Jesus our Lord? Aren’t you the result of my work for the Lord?Others may not think of me as an apostle. But I am certainly one to you! You are the proof that I am the Lord’s apostle.

Others have the right to receive help from you. Don’t we have even more right to do so? But we didn’t use that right. No, we have put up with everything. We didn’t want to keep the good news of Christ from spreading.

You have been born again by means of the living word of God. His word lasts forever. You were not born again from a seed that will die. You were born from a seed that can’t die.

Every Sabbath day he went to the synagogue. He was trying to get both Jews and Greeks to believe in the Lord.Silas and Timothy came from Macedonia. Then Paul spent all his time preaching. He was a witness to the Jews that Jesus was the Messiah.But they opposed Paul. They treated him badly. So he shook out his clothes in protest. Then he said to them,“ God’s judgment against you will be your own fault! Don’t blame me for it! From now on I will go to the Gentiles.”Then Paul left the synagogue and went to the house next door. It was the house of Titius Justus, a man who worshiped God.Crispus was the synagogue leader. He and everyone living in his house came to believe in the Lord. Many others who lived in Corinth heard Paul. They too believed and were baptized.One night the Lord spoke to Paul in a vision.“ Don’t be afraid,” he said.“ Keep on speaking. Don’t be silent.I am with you. No one will attack you and harm you. I have many people in this city.”So Paul stayed in Corinth for a year and a half. He taught them God’s word.

I have always wanted to preach the good news where Christ was not known. I don’t want to build on what someone else has started.

Then what reward do I get? Here is what it is. I am able to preach the good news free of charge. And I can do this without using all my rights as a person who preaches the good news.