1 Corinthians 15:10

Paul is what he is by God's grace, which empowered his abundant labor. It matters because it credits all fruitful service to grace, not human effort.

Cross-references · 20

• Phil 4:13I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength.
• 2 Cor 3:5Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim that anything comes from us, but our competence comes from God.
• Phil 2:13For it is God who works in you to will and to act on behalf of His good purpose.
• Eph 3:7–8I became a servant of this gospel by the gift of God’s grace, given me through the working of His power.
• Eph 2:7–8in order that in the coming ages He might display the surpassing riches of His grace, demonstrated by His kindness to us in Christ Jesus.
• Rom 12:3For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but think of yourself with sober judgment, according to the measure of faith God has given you.
• 2 Cor 10:12–16We do not dare to classify or compare ourselves with some who commend themselves. When they measure themselves by themselves and compare themselves with themselves, they show their ignorance.
• Gal 2:8For the One who was at work in Peter’s apostleship to the circumcised was also at work in my apostleship to the Gentiles.
• Rom 11:5–6In the same way, at the present time there is a remnant chosen by grace.
• 2 Cor 12:11I have become a fool, but you drove me to it. In fact, you should have commended me, since I am in no way inferior to those “super-apostles,” even though I am nothing.
• Rom 15:17–20Therefore I exult in Christ Jesus in my service to God.
• Col 1:28–29We proclaim Him, admonishing and teaching everyone with all wisdom, so that we may present everyone perfect in Christ.
• 1 Cor 4:7For who makes you so 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?
• 2 Cor 6:1As God’s fellow workers, then, we urge you not to receive God’s grace in vain.
• Matt 10:20For it will not be you speaking, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you.
• 1 Cor 15:2By this gospel you are saved, if you hold firmly to the word I preached to you. Otherwise, you have believed in vain.
• Rom 11:1I ask then, did God reject His people? Certainly not! I am an Israelite myself, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin.
• 1 Tim 1:15–16This is a trustworthy saying, worthy of full acceptance: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the worst.
• 1 Cor 3:6I planted the seed and Apollos watered it, but God made it grow.
• 2 Cor 11:23–30Are they servants of Christ? I am speaking like I am out of my mind, but I am so much more: in harder labor, in more imprisonments, in worse beatings, in frequent danger of death.

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