1 Corinthians 15:10

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

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1 Timothy 1:15

His grace

1 Corinthians 15:2

2 Corinthians 6:1

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Yet

Colossians 1:28

General references

Genesis 6:8

Luke 17:10

Bible References

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For who makes you superior? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as though you did not receive it?

So I ask, "God has not rejected his people, has he?" Of course not! I am an Israeli myself, a descendant of Abraham from the tribe of Benjamin.

so that in the coming ages he might display the limitless riches of his grace that comes to us through his kindness in the Messiah Jesus.

I have become a servant of this gospel according to the gift of God's grace that was given me by the working of his power.

This is a trustworthy saying that deserves complete acceptance: To this world Messiah came, sinful people to reclaim.

His grace

and by which you are also being saved if you hold firmly to the message I proclaimed to you unless, of course, your faith was worthless.

Since, then, we are working with God, we plead with you not to accept God's grace in vain.

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Therefore, in the Messiah Jesus I have the right to boast about my work for God.

We would not dare put ourselves in the same class with, or compare ourselves to, those who recommend themselves. Whenever they measure themselves by their own standards or compare themselves among themselves, they show how foolish they are.

Are they the Messiah's servants? I am insane to talk like this, but I am a far better one! I have been involved in far greater efforts, far more imprisonments, countless beatings, and have faced death more than once.

I have become a fool. You forced me to be one. Really, I should have been commended by you, for I am not in any way inferior to your "super-apostles," even if I am nothing.

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It won't be you speaking, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you.

By ourselves we are not qualified to claim that anything comes from us. Rather, our credentials come from God,

For the one who worked through Peter by making him an apostle to the circumcised also worked through me by sending me to the gentiles.

I have become a servant of this gospel according to the gift of God's grace that was given me by the working of his power.

For it is God who is producing in you both the desire and the ability to do what pleases him.

I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

It is he whom we proclaim as we admonish and wisely teach everyone, so that we may present everyone mature in the Messiah.

General references

However, the LORD was pleased with Noah.

That's the way it is with you. When you have done everything you were ordered to do, say, "We are worthless servants. We have done only what we ought to have done.'"