1 Corinthians 15:10

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:9-10

Humility and self assertion. No writer is more given to paradox than the Apostle Paul. An eager, impulsive nature is wont to realize vividly every side of truth that is presented, and seems consequently to fall into inconsistencies. But such a nature is usually remarkably sincere and trustworthy. Such was the case with the apostle, and no candid reader can doubt that the language of the text represents the real facts of the case. I. AN ASSERTION OF PERSONAL HUMILITY . 1. ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:9-10

Traits of Christian greatness. I. HONESTY . How faithfully Paul speaks of himself! How candidly he acknowledges the circumstances connected with his apostleship! Yet he had the greatest reason to magnify his authority to the Corinthians. They were ready, many of them, to twist anything to his disadvantage. But ha is not moved by this. To him the end does not justify the means; he must have "means" perfectly unquestionable. His candour and truthfulness are striking. He is a man of... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:10

By the grace of God I am. what I am. And therefore he was "in nothing behind the very chiefest apostles." However humbly he thought of himself, it would have been mere unfaithfulness to disparage his own work ( 2 Corinthians 3:5 , 2 Corinthians 3:6 ). I laboured more abundantly than they all. Because God wrought effectually in him ( Galatians 2:8 ). The word used for "labour" implies the extreme of toil ( Matthew 6:28 : Philippians 2:16 ), etc. But the grace of God. "It is God that... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 1 Corinthians 15:10

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 any merit of my own. All my hopes of heaven; all my zeal; all my success; all my piety; all my apostolic endowments, are to be traced to him. Nothing is more common in the writings of Paul, than a disposition to trace all that he had to the mere mercy and grace of God. And nothing is a more... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 1 Corinthians 15:9-11

1 Corinthians 15:9-11. 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 I am A Christian and an apostle; and his grace upon Or toward me, in raising me to so high a dignity, and so happy a state; was not in vain But produced, in a great measure, its proper fruit. For I laboured more abundantly than they all That is, more than any... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:1-11

15:1-58 THE DOCTRINE OF THE RESURRECTIONThe fact of Christ’s resurrection (15:1-11)Among the Corinthians were some who denied that there will be a physical resurrection of the dead. Paul points out in this chapter that the truth of the resurrection is part of the gospel which they believed and by which they are saved (15:1-2).The gospel Paul preaches has been given him by God. It has as its basis the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ (3-4). Paul then gives a list of eye witnesses... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - 1 Corinthians 15:10

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 , 1 Corinthians 15:17 . with . App-104 . read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - 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 found vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.Despite the deep humility expressed in 1 Corinthians 15:9, Paul nevertheless did not depreciate the glory and dignity of his calling. "The whole verse is a maintenance of official dignity as an apostle."[17]More abundantly than they all ... Paul's labors were the most extensive of any of the apostles,... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - 1 Corinthians 15:10

1 Corinthians 15:10. Was not in vain.— Instead of was not in vain, &c. some render the passage has not been in vain; for I have laboured. read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - 1 Corinthians 15:10

10. by . . . grace . . . and his grace—The repetition implies the prominence which God's grace had in his mind, as the sole cause of his marvellous conversion and subsequent labors. Though "not meet to be called an apostle," grace has given him, in Christ, the meetness needed for the office. Translate as the Greek, "His grace which was (showed) towards me." what I am—occupying the honorable office of an apostle. Contrast with this the self-sufficient prayer of another Pharisee ( :-). but I... read more

Group of Brands