I laboured more than they all — That is, more than any of them, from a deep sense of the peculiar love God had shown me. Yet, to speak more properly, it is not I, but the grace of God that is with me — This it is which at first qualified me for the work, and still excites me to zeal and diligence in it.
1 CORINTHIANS 15:10 @h`# su.n evmoi, {C} The reading h` eivj evme, (î46 syrhmg goth Theodoret) is an assimilation to the expression in the first part of the verse. It is more difficult to decide whet...
Verse 1 Corinthians 15:10. _BUT, BY THE GRACE OF GOD I AM WHAT I AM_] God, by his mere grace and good will, has called me to be an apostle, and has denominated me such. _AND HIS GRACE_, c.] Nor have...
BUT BY THE GRACE OF GOD I AM WHAT I AM - By the “favor” or mercy of God. What I have is to be traced to him, and not to any native tendency to goodness, or any native inclination to his service, or to...
III. RESURRECTION AND THE HOPE OF THE CHURCH AND CONCLUSION: Chapter S 15-16 1. Resurrection and the Hope of the Church. CHAPTER 15 _ 1. The Gospel and the Resurrection of Christ. (1 Corinthians 1...
1 CORINTHIANS 15. THE RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD. This discussion seems not to have been elicited by the church letter, but by information which had reached Paul through another source. Some were denyin...
JESUS' RESURRECTION AND OURS (1 Corinthians 15:1-58) 1 Corinthians 15:1-58 is both one of the greatest and one of the most difficult Chapter s in the New Testament. Not only is it in itself difficult...
Brothers, I want to make clear to you the nature of the good news that I preached to you, that gospel which you also received, and in which you stand, and through which you are saved. I want to make c...
GRACE. App-184. WHICH, &C. = Figure of speech _Ellipsis._ App-6. UPON. App-104. WAS NOT. did not become, i.e. prove to be. IN VAIN. Greek. _kenos,_ empty. Not the same word as in verses: 1Co 15:2,...
_But by the grace of God I am what I am_ St Paul is willing to admit his _personal_inferiority to the other Apostles, but such willingness does not lead him to make a similar admission regarding his _...
1 Corinthians 15:1-58. THE DOCTRINE OF THE RESURRECTION This chapter is one of the deepest and most mysterious in the Bible. It is the one exception to the statement in ch. 3 that St Paul was unable t...
ΣῪΝ ἘΜΟΊ אBDFG Vetus Lat. Vulg. ἡ σὺν ἐμοί rec. with AE. 10. ΧΆΡΙΤΙ ΔῈ ΘΕΟΥ͂. St Paul is willing to admit his _personal_ inferiority to the other Apostles, but such willingness does not lead him to ma...
_CHRIST AND THE RESURRECTION GOSPEL 1 CORINTHIANS 15:1-11:_ "Christ was raised to life" is the very heart of gospel preaching. Paul and all early gospel preachers proclaimed that Christ died for our s...
ΧΆΡΙΤΙ _dat. sing. от_ ΧΆΡΙΣ (G5485) благодать, помощь или милость, оказанная кем-л. более низким по положению, поэтому безвозмездная (TDNT; TLNT; EDNT). _Instr. dat._ ΘΕΟΫ́ _gen. sing. от_ ΘΕΌΣ (G2...
DISCOURSE: 1990 ALL OF GRACE 1 Corinthians 15:10. _By the grace of God I am what I am_. EVERY one, however exalted, may find points of comparison in which he is inferior to others; and, instead of en...
WAS NOT IN VAIN.— Instead of _was not in vain,_ &c. some render the passage _has not been in vain; for I have laboured._...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION l Its Historicity (1 Corinthians 15:1-11) 15 Now I would remind you brethren, in what terms I preached to you the gospel, which you received, in which also you stand, 2by...
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...
24 Predicting, or foretelling, is not necessarily involved in the gift of prophecy. The prophet, in Scripture, is the mouthpiece or spokesman of God. He may speak of the past, the present, or the futu...
_(F) THE FACT AND THE DOCTRINE OF THE RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD_ Some Corinthians disbelieved in the resurrection of the dead—not, apparently, in Christ's Resurrection, though St. Paul felt this would...
I AM WHAT I AM] i.e. an Apostle. NOT IN VAIN] i.e. was justified by its results. His apostolic work, as well as his apostleship itself, was due to THE GRACE OF GOD. 11. Or they] i.e. the other Apostl...
SERVANTS OF CHRIST 1 CORINTHIANS _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 15 *RESURRECTION 15:1-58 The reason that Paul was writing about the *resurrection is in verse 12. Some Christians were saying that there i...
BUT BY THE GRACE OF GOD I AM WHAT I AM. — This whole verse is full of that maintenance of official dignity as an Apostle and a labourer, and of personal humility, which were characteristic of St. Paul...
CHAPTER 21 THE RESURRECTION OF CHRIST I. ITS PLACE IN THE CHRISTIAN CREED PAUL having now settled the minor questions of order in public worship, marriage, intercourse with the heathen, and the othe...
§ 50. THE FACTS CONCERNING CHRIST'S RESURRECTION. The doubt which the Ap. combats strikes at the fundamental, probative fact of his Gospel. He must therefore go back to the beginning, and reassert the...
“God's grace,” which makes Paul what he _is_ (see 1 Corinthians 9:1 f.: the double εἰμὶ is firmly assertive “I am what I verily am”), is the _favour_, utterly undeserved, that summoned Saul of Tarsus...
THE GOSPEL: CHRIST DIED AND ROSE AGAIN 1 Corinthians 15:1 If 1 Corinthians 13:1 is a psalm of love, this chapter is a psalm of hope-a hope that cannot be ashamed. It is the most memorable argument in...
The last fact of the "spiritualities" is the resurrection, and the apostle first gives the proof of the resurrection of Christ. His final proof was his own experience. It is evident that there were so...
When Paul Saw Jesus The record of Christ's appearance to Paul is found in Acts 9:5; Acts 22:6-8; Acts 26:14-18. McGarvey says, "The other apostles had three years and a half filled with instruction, a...
_I have laboured more abundantly. He does not say better, or that he excelled them; and even as to his labours, he gives the honour to God: Not I, but the grace of God with me. (Witham)_...
“For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the Church of God. 10. But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not in va...
I. WITH THE FACT OF THE RESURRECTION OF THE BODY CHRISTIAN SALVATION RISES OR FALLS. VERS. 1-34. The apostle's first care is to establish firmly the fact of the resurrection of Jesus, on which rests...
(1) Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; (2) By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached...
As usual, the introductory words (1 Corinthians 1:1-3) of the epistle give us no little intimation of that which is to follow. The apostle speaks of himself as such "called [to be] an apostle of Jesus...
_A FACT AND A WARNING_ ‘By the grace of God I am what I am: and His grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain.’ 1 Corinthians 15:10 This is the confession of a soul truly devout and humble,...
_‘NOT IN VAIN’_ ‘Grace … not in vain;’ ‘Labour … not in vain.’ 1 Corinthians 15:10; 1 Corinthians 15:58 St. Paul, of all men, was ever keen on Christian men and women not only enjoying their privil...
_THE CALL FOR SERVICE_ ‘I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God.’ 1 Corinthians 15:10 The Gospel of Christ appeals to you in your strength as well as in your weakn...
10._And his grace was not vain. _Those that set free-will in opposition to the grace of God, that whatever good we do may not be ascribed wholly to Him, wrest these words to suit their own interpretat...
But other evils had found means to introduce themselves into the midst of the shining gifts which were exercised in the bosom of the flock at Corinth. The resurrection of the dead was denied. Satan is...
BUT BY THE GRACE OF GOD I AM WHAT I AM,.... As he was what he was by the grace of God in a private capacity, upon a level with other Christians, being a chosen vessel of salvation, not by works, nor o...
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. Ve...
_I am the least of the apostles, because I persecuted_, &c. True believers are humbled all their lives for the sins they committed before they repented and believed. _But by the grace of God I am what...
NOT IN VAIN; it was not inoperative; it led me to labor more THAN THEY ALL; than any of the apostles. NOT I; not on account of any thing spiritually good naturally in him. Matthew 10:20....
OF THE RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD. The facts of Christ's resurrection:...
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 LABORED MORE ABUNDANTLY THAN THEY ALL; YET NOT I, BUT THE GRACE OF GOD WHICH WAS WITH ME....
This chapter itself forms a third division of the book, and deals with another most serious matter in Corinth. Some among them denied the resurrection of the dead. But the resurrection of Christ is th...
BUT BY THE GRACE OF GOD. AM WHAT. AM: AND HIS GRACE WHICH WAS BESTOWED UPON ME WAS NOT FOUND VAIN; BUT. LABORED MORE ABUNDANTLY THAN THEY ALL: YET NOT I, BUT THE GRACE OF GOD WHICH WAS WITH ME. 'But...
1-11 The word resurrection, usually points out our existence beyond the grave. Of the apostle's doctrine not a trace can be found in all the teaching of philosophers. The doctrine of Christ's death a...
BY THE GRACE OF GOD I AM WHAT I AM; by the free love and goodness of God, I, that was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious, have obtained mercy; and though it was impossible for me any...
But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not found vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me. [Ga...
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV Wherefore also Paul, since he was the apostle of the Gentiles, says, "I laboured more than they all."[340] Origen de Principiis Book III and again, "I laboured mor...
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'But by the grace of God I am what I am. And his grace which was bestowed on me was not found to be vain, but I laboured more abundantly than all of them, and yet not I, but the grace of God which was...
THE WITNESSES TO THE RESURRECTION (15:5-10). 'And that he appeared (literally 'was seen by) to Cephas; then to the twelve; then he appeared to above five hundred brethren at once, of whom the greater...
1 Corinthians 15:10. BUT BY THE GRACE OF GOD I AM WHAT I AM: AND HIS GRACE WHICH WAS BESTOWED UPON ME WAS NOT IN VAIN; I LABOURED MORE ABUNDANTLY THAN THEY ALL, YET NOT I, etc. With perfect freedom do...
WHAT I AM (ο ειμ). Not,WHO (ος), butWHAT (ο), neuter singular. His actual character and attainments. All "by the grace of God" (χαριτ θεου).I LABOURED MORE ABUNDANTLY THAN THEY ALL (περισσοτε...
1 Corinthians 15:3 I. The gospel which Paul preached was very simple. (1) The articles of his creed were few and plain. "Christ died; He was buried; He rose again." (2) He delivered them "first of all...
1 Corinthians 15:10 Sudden Conversions. The conversion of St. Paul was a wonderful conversion, as our church in one place calls it, because it was so unexpected and (as far as the appearance went) s...
1 Corinthians 15:1. _Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; by which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory wh...
1 Corinthians 15:1. _Moreover, Brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; by which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory wh...
1 Corinthians 15:1. _Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand. By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory wh...
1 Corinthians 15:1. _Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; by which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory wh...
CONTENTS: The resurrection of Christ and the resurrection of believers resulting from it. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Paul, Cephas, James, Adam. CONCLUSION: The resurrection of Christ, together with His...
1 Corinthians 15:1. _I declare unto you the gospel by which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you._ We have here an epitome of the whole gospel, comprising essentially the d...
BUT BY GOD'S GRACE. The _circumcision party_ may not consider Paul an apostle, but he is - by God's grace!!! "Grace" is used in three different senses in this verse: (1) the _grace_ that saved him (Ep...
1 CORINTHIANS 15:1 The Futility of Faith If the Dead Are Not Raised. Many people in the ancient Greco-Roman world believed that death ended life completely or led to a permanent but shadowy existence...
CHAPTER 15 SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER He proves the resurrection of the dead against the false teachers who denied it: I. From the fact of Christ's resurrection. Thus (ver. 12) he gives the bearing of...
_I am what I am_ an Apostle, and Teacher of the Gentiles. _His grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain._ Not empty, barren, without results. S. Ambrose reads: "His grace was not poor in me,...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Note: 1. The main teaching of chapter is _almost pure dogma_. It is for the most part matter of simple revelation and belief. 2. The _earliest_ extant _written account_ of the appea...
EXPOSITION 1 CORINTHIANS 15:1 _The doctrine of the resurrection. _This chapter, and the thirteenth, on Christian love, stand out, even among the writings of St. Paul, as pre-eminently beautiful and i...
Let's turn to I Corinthians, chapter 15. The Corinthian church was a real mess. A lot of carnality that led to divisions, a lot of party spirit, a real misunderstanding of the spiritual gifts, a lot o...
1 Corinthians 15:2; 1 Corinthians 4:7; 1 Timothy 1:15; 1 Timothy 1:16;...
Was not [ο υ ε γ ε ν η θ η]. Rev., better, was not found : did not turn out to be....
THE GLORIOUS GOSPEL 1 Corinthians 15:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The Apostle Paul said: "Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the Gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and where...
Was Paul’s boasting contrary to Scripture? PROBLEM: Paul boasted here when he declared, “I labored more abundantly than they all.” In 2 Corinthians 11:16, Paul even admitted that he was bragging, clai...