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

Why, who gives you your superiority, my brother? Or what have you that you did not receive? And if you really did receive it, why boast as if this were not so?

I ask then, Has God cast off His People? No, indeed. Why, I myself am an Israelite, of the posterity of Abraham and of the tribe of Benjamin.

in order that, by His goodness to us in Christ Jesus, He might display in the Ages to come the transcendent riches of His grace.

in which I have been appointed to serve, in virtue of the work which God, in the exercise of His power within me, has graciously entrusted to me.

Faithful is the saying, and deserving of universal acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; among whom I stand foremost.

His grace

through which also you are obtaining salvation, if you bear in mind the words in which I proclaimed it--unless indeed your faith has been unreal from the very first.

And you also we, as God's fellow workers, entreat not to be found to have received His grace to no purpose.

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I can therefore glory in Christ Jesus concerning the work for God in which I am engaged.

For we have not the 'courage' to rank ourselves among, or compare ourselves with, certain persons distinguished by their self-commendation. Yet they are not wise, measuring themselves, as they do, by one another and comparing themselves with one another.

Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as if I were out of my mind.)

It is foolish of me to write all this, but you have compelled me to do so. Why, you ought to have been my vindicators; for in no respect have I been inferior to these superlatively great Apostles, even though in myself I am nothing.

Yet

for it is not you who will speak: it will be the Spirit of your Father speaking through you.

not that of ourselves we are competent to decide anything by our own reasonings, but our competency comes from God.

for He who had been at work within Peter with a view to his Apostleship to the Jews had also been at work within me with a view to my Apostleship to the Gentiles--

in which I have been appointed to serve, in virtue of the work which God, in the exercise of His power within me, has graciously entrusted to me.

For it is God Himself whose power creates within you the desire to do His gracious will and also brings about the accomplishment of the desire.

I have strength for anything through Him who gives me power.

Him we preach, admonishing every one and instructing every one, with all possible wisdom, so that we may bring every one into God's presence, made perfect through Christ.

General references

So you also, when you have obeyed all the orders given you, must say, "'There is no merit in our service: what we have done is only what we were in duty bound to do.'"