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1 Corinthians 4:15
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.

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1 Corinthians 4:14
I don’t write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.

Galatians 4:19
My little children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ is formed in you—

Philemon 1:10
I appeal to you for my child Onesimus, whom I have become the father of in my chains,

1 Thessalonians 2:11
As you know, we exhorted, comforted, and implored every one of you, as a father does his own children,

1 Timothy 1:2
to Timothy, my true child in faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God our Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

Matthew 23:9
Call no man on the earth your father, for one is your Father, he who is in heaven.

2 Corinthians 12:14
Behold, this is the third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden to you; for I seek not your possessions, but you. For the children ought not to save up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

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James 1:18
Of his own will he gave birth to us by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.

1 Peter 1:23
having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which lives and remains forever.

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1 Corinthians 9:1
Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Haven’t I seen Jesus Christ, our Lord? Aren’t you my work in the Lord?

1 Corinthians 9:2
If to others I am not an apostle, yet at least I am to you; for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.

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