15 For (A)though you have countless[a] guides in Christ, you do not have many fathers. For (B)I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 4:15 Greek you have ten thousand

10 I appeal to you for (A)my child, (B)Onesimus,[a] (C)whose father I became in my imprisonment.

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Footnotes

  1. Philemon 1:10 Onesimus means useful (see verse 11) or beneficial (see verse 20)

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