1 Corinthians 4:15
For no matter how many guides you may have in the Christian life, you will not have many fathers; for in this matter of union with Christ, I became your father, through preaching the good news to you.
Galatians 4:19
my children??ou for whom I am enduring a mother's pains again, until Christ is formed in you.
1 Corinthians 3:10
Like an expert builder, I laid a foundation, as God commissioned me to do, and now someone else is building upon it. But let everyone be careful how he does so.
Acts 18:4-11
Every Sabbath he would preach in the synagogue, and try to convince both Jews and Greeks.
Romans 15:20
In all this it has been my ambition to preach the good news only where Christ's name was unknown, so as not to build on foundations other men had laid.
1 Corinthians 3:6
I did the planting, Apollos the watering, but it was God who made the plants grow.
1 Corinthians 9:1-2
Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you not the product of my work in the Lord's service?
1 Corinthians 9:12
If others enjoy such rights over you, have we not a still better claim? But, you say, we have never availed ourselves of this right. No, we will stand anything rather than put any hindrance in the way of the good news of the Christ.
1 Corinthians 9:14
In just that way the Lord directed that those who preach the good news should get their living from it.
1 Corinthians 9:18
What pay then do I get? Why, that in my preaching I can offer the good news without cost, and so not take full advantage of my rights as a preacher.
1 Corinthians 9:23
And I do it all for the sake of the good news, so that I may share in its blessings along with the rest.
2 Corinthians 3:1-3
Am I falling into self-recommendation again? Do I, like some people, need letters of recommendation to you or from you?
2 Timothy 4:3
For a time will come when they will not listen to wholesome instruction, but will overwhelm themselves with teachers to suit their whims and tickle their fancies,
Titus 1:4
to Titus, my true child in our common faith; God our Father and Christ Jesus our Savior bless you and give you peace.
James 1:18
Of his own accord he brought us into being through the message of truth, so that we might be a kind of first-fruits among his creatures.
1 Peter 1:23
for you have been born anew from a germ not perishable, but imperishable, through the message of the living, everlasting God.