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.

By

1 Timothy 1:15

His grace

1 Corinthians 15:2

2 Corinthians 6:1

But i

Yet

Colossians 1:28

General references

Luke 17:10

Bible References

By

For who makes you superior? And what do you have that you did not get from someone? But if you got it from someone, why do you boast as though you had not?

I say then, God has not disowned His people, has He? Of course not! Why, I am an Israelite myself, a descendant of Abraham, a member of the tribe of Benjamin.

to show, throughout the coming ages, the boundless generosity of His unmerited favor shown us in His goodness to us through Christ Jesus.

for which I was called to serve in accordance with the gift of God's unmerited favor which was bestowed on me by the exercise of His power--

It is a saying to be trusted and deserves our fullest acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; and I am the foremost of them.

His grace

and through which you are to be saved, unless your faith at first was spurious.

As God's fellow-worker I beg you too not to accept God's favor and throw it away.

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So, as a Christian, I am proud of the things that I have done for God.

Indeed, I do not dare to count or compare myself with certain men who are always recommending themselves. But they do not show good sense, because they do continue measuring themselves with one another and comparing themselves with one another.

Are they ministers of Christ? So am I. I am talking like a man that has gone crazy -- as such I am superior! -- serving Him with labors greater by far, with far more imprisonments, with floggings vastly worse, and often at the point of death.

I have made a fool of myself, but you have forced me to do it, for I am the man who ought to have been constantly approved by you. For I am not a single bit inferior to your surpassingly superior apostles, though really I am "nobody."

Yet

For it is not you who are speaking, but the Spirit of your Father that is speaking through you.

Not that I am myself qualified to consider anything as coming from me myself. No, my qualification comes from God, for

for He who had been at work in Peter for his apostleship to the Jews had been at work in me too for the apostleship to the heathen --

for which I was called to serve in accordance with the gift of God's unmerited favor which was bestowed on me by the exercise of His power--

for it is God Himself who is at work in you to help you desire it as well as do it.

I can do anything through Him who gives me strength.

We are proclaiming Him, warning everyone and teaching everyone with ample wisdom, in order to present to God everyone mature through union with Christ.

General references

So you too, when you do all that you are ordered to do, say, 'We are worthless slaves; we have done only what we ought to have done.'"