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.

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.

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.

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 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.

Because of God’s grace to me, I have laid the foundation like an expert builder. Now others are building on it. But whoever is building on this foundation must be very careful.

Oh, my dear children! I feel as if I’m going through labor pains for you again, and they will continue until Christ is fully developed in your lives.

I do everything to spread the Good News and share in its blessings.

In the same way, the Lord ordered that those who preach the Good News should be supported by those who benefit from it.

I planted the seed in your hearts, and Apollos watered it, but it was God who made it grow.

I appeal to you to show kindness to my child, Onesimus. I became his father in the faith while here in prison.Onesimus hasn’t been of much use to you in the past, but now he is very useful to both of us.I am sending him back to you, and with him comes my own heart.

For a time is coming when people will no longer listen to sound and wholesome teaching. They will follow their own desires and will look for teachers who will tell them whatever their itching ears want to hear.

He chose to give birth to us by giving us his true word. And we, out of all creation, became his prized possession.

I, Paul, write this with my own hand: I will repay it. And I won’t mention that you owe me your very soul!

Are we beginning to praise ourselves again? Are we like others, who need to bring you letters of recommendation, or who ask you to write such letters on their behalf? Surely not!The only letter of recommendation we need is you yourselves. Your lives are a letter written in our hearts; everyone can read it and recognize our good work among you.Clearly, you are a letter from Christ showing the result of our ministry among you. This“ letter” is written not with pen and ink, but with the Spirit of the living God. It is carved not on tablets of stone, but on human hearts.

I am writing to Titus, my true son in the faith that we share. May God the Father and Christ Jesus our Savior give you grace and peace.

Am I not as free as anyone else? Am I not an apostle? Haven’t I seen Jesus our Lord with my own eyes? Isn’t it because of my work that you belong to the Lord?Even if others think I am not an apostle, I certainly am to you. You yourselves are proof that I am the Lord’s apostle.

If you support others who preach to you, shouldn’t we have an even greater right to be supported? But we have never used this right. We would rather put up with anything than be an obstacle to the Good News about Christ.

For you have been born again, but not to a life that will quickly end. Your new life will last forever because it comes from the eternal, living word of God.

Each Sabbath found Paul at the synagogue, trying to convince the Jews and Greeks alike.And after Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul spent all his time preaching the word. He testified to the Jews that Jesus was the Messiah.But when they opposed and insulted him, Paul shook the dust from his clothes and said,“ Your blood is upon your own heads— I am innocent. From now on I will go preach to the Gentiles.”Then he left and went to the home of Titius Justus, a Gentile who worshiped God and lived next door to the synagogue.Crispus, the leader of the synagogue, and everyone in his household believed in the Lord. Many others in Corinth also heard Paul, became believers, and were baptized.One night the Lord spoke to Paul in a vision and told him,“ Don’t be afraid! Speak out! Don’t be silent!For I am with you, and no one will attack and harm you, for many people in this city belong to me.”So Paul stayed there for the next year and a half, teaching the word of God.

My ambition has always been to preach the Good News where the name of Christ has never been heard, rather than where a church has already been started by someone else.

What then is my pay? It is the opportunity to preach the Good News without charging anyone. That’s why I never demand my rights when I preach the Good News.