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 strengthens me.
• 2 Cor 3:5not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God;
• Phil 2:13For it is God who works in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.
• Eph 3:7–8of which I was made a servant, according to the gift of that grace of God which was given me according to the working of his power.
• Eph 2:7–8that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus;
• Rom 12:3For I say, through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.
• 2 Cor 10:12–16For we are not bold to number or compare ourselves with some of those who commend themselves. But they themselves, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are without understanding.
• Gal 2:8(for he who appointed Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision appointed me also to the Gentiles);
• Rom 11:5–6Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.
• 2 Cor 12:11I have become foolish in boasting. You compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you, for in nothing was I inferior to the very best apostles, though I am nothing.
• Rom 15:17–20I have therefore my boasting in Christ Jesus in things pertaining to God.
• Col 1:28–29whom we proclaim, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus;
• 1 Cor 4:7For who makes you different? And what do you have that you didn’t receive? But if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?
• 2 Cor 6:1Working together, we entreat also that you not receive the grace of God in vain,
• Matt 10:20For it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father who speaks in you.
• 1 Cor 15:2by which also you are saved, if you hold firmly the word which I preached to you — unless you believed in vain.
• Rom 11:1I ask then, did God reject his people? May it never be! For I also am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
• 1 Tim 1:15–16The saying is faithful and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.
• 1 Cor 3:6I planted. Apollos watered. But God gave the increase.
• 2 Cor 11:23–30Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself) I am more so; in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in deaths often.

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