1 Corinthians 15:10 Cross References - Goodspeed

¹⁰ But by God's favor I have become what I am, and the favor he showed me has not gone for nothing, but I have worked harder than any of them, although it was not really I but the favor God showed me.

²⁰ for it is not you who will speak, it is the Spirit of your Father that will speak through you.

¹ I ask then, has God repudiated his people? By no means. Why, I am an Israelite myself, I am descended from Abraham, and I belong to the tribe of Benjamin.

⁵ So too at the present time there is a remnant selected by God's mercy. ⁶ But if it is by his mercy, it is not for anything they have done. Otherwise, his mercy would not be mercy at all.

³ By the favor that God has shown me, I would tell every one of you not to think too highly of himself, but to think reasonably, judging himself by the degree of faith God has allowed him.

¹⁷ So as a follower of Christ Jesus I have reason to be proud of my work for God. ¹⁸ For I will venture to speak only of what Christ has accomplished through me in winning the heathen to obedience, by word and action, ¹⁹ by the force of signs and marvels, and by the power of the holy Spirit, with the result that I have completed the preaching of the good news of Christ all the way from Jerusalem around to Illyricum. ²⁰ In all this it has been my ambition to preach the good news only where Christ's name was unknown, so as not to build on foundations other men had laid.

⁶ I did the planting, Apollos the watering, but it was God who made the plants grow.

⁷ For who sees anything special in you? And what have you got that you have not been given? But if it has been given you, why do you boast as though it had not been?

² and through which you are to be saved, if you hold on, unless your faith has been all for nothing.

⁵ Not that I am of myself qualified to claim anything as originating with me. My qualification is from God,

¹ As God's fellow-worker, I appeal to you, too, not to accept the favor of God and then waste it.

¹² I do not indeed venture to class or compare myself with certain individuals who approve of themselves. But when they measure themselves by one another and compare themselves with one another, they do not show good sense. ¹³ But my boasting will not be extravagant, nor exceed the limits God has allowed me, which reach all the way to you. ¹⁴ It is no strain for me to do this, as it might be for people who had never got so far, for I was the first to come all the way to you with the good news of the Christ. ¹⁵ I do not indulge in extravagant boasts over work done by others, but I do hope that as your faith increases, my influence may be immensely enlarged through you, ¹⁶ and I may preach the gospel in the lands beyond you without having to boast over work already done in another's field.

²³ If they are Christian workers—I am talking like a madman!—I am a better one! with far greater labors, far more imprisonments, vastly worse beatings, and in frequent danger of death. ²⁴ Five times I have been given one less than forty lashes, by the Jews. ²⁵ I have been beaten three times by the Romans, I have been stoned once, I have been shipwrecked three times, a night and a day I have been adrift at sea; ²⁶ with my frequent journeys, in danger from rivers, danger from robbers, danger from my own people, danger from the heathen, danger in the city, danger in the desert, danger at sea, danger from false brothers, ²⁷ through toil and hardship, through many a sleepless night, through hunger and thirst, often without food, and exposed to cold. ²⁸ And besides everything else, the thing that burdens me every day is my anxiety about all the churches. ²⁹ Who is weak without my being weak? Whose conscience is hurt without my being fired with indignation? ³⁰ If there must be boasting, I will boast of the things that show my weakness!

¹¹ I have been making a fool of myself, but you forced me to do it, when you ought to have been expressing your approval of me. For I am not a bit inferior to your superfine apostles, even if I am nobody!

⁸ for he who actuated Peter to be an apostle to the Jews also actuated me to be one to the heathen—

⁷ to show the incomparable wealth of his mercy throughout the ages to come by his goodness to us through Christ Jesus. ⁸ For it is by his mercy that you have been saved through faith. It is not by your own action, it is the gift of God.

⁷ for which I became a worker by virtue of the gift of God's mercy which by the exercise of his power he has given me. ⁸ To me, the very least of all his people, this favor has been given, of preaching to the heathen the inexhaustible wealth of the Christ,

¹³ For it is God who in his good will is at work in your hearts, inspiring your will and your action.

¹³ I can do anything through him who gives me strength.

²⁸ And in spreading the news of him, we warn everyone and teach everyone all our wisdom, in order to bring everyone to Christian perfection. ²⁹ That is what I am working for, fighting with all the energy with which he so mightily endows me.

¹⁵ It is a trustworthy saying, entitled to the fullest acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. And I am the foremost of them, ¹⁶ but God had mercy on me in order that in my case as the foremost, Christ Jesus might display his perfect patience, as an example to those who would later believe in him and find eternal life.