1 Corinthians 15:10 Cross References - NSB

¹⁰ By the divine influence of God I am what I am. His grace was not given to me in vain for I labored more than all of them. Yet it was not I. It was the divine influence and favor of God in me.

²⁰ »You will not speak on your own. Your Father’s Spirit will speak through you.

¹ I ask has God rejected his people? Certainly not! I also am an Israelite, a descendant of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

⁵ Even so at this present time there is a remnant chosen according to God’s grace. ⁶ If it is by grace then it is no longer on the basis of works. Otherwise grace is not grace (undeserved kindness). But if it is of works then it is not by grace. Otherwise works are no longer works.

³ I say through the grace given to me that every man among you should not think more highly of himself than he ought to think. But to think soberly, just as God has dealt to every man the measure of faith.

¹⁷ I glory in Jesus Christ in my service to God. ¹⁸ I will not dare to speak of any of those things that Christ has not accomplished through me. I will lead the nations to obey God in word and deed. ¹⁹ Through mighty signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God. From Jerusalem, and round about Illyricum, I have fully preached the good news of Christ. ²⁰ I have strived to preach the good news, not where Christ was named, lest I should build upon another man’s foundation:

⁶ I have planted, Apollos watered; but God caused the growth.

⁷ For who made you superior to (different than) another? What do you have that you did not receive? If you did receive it, why do you brag, as if you did not receive it?

² You will be saved through the good news if you hold fast to the word I preached to you. That way you will not believe in vain.

⁵ We are not adequate by ourselves to account for anything. Our adequacy is from God.

¹ Working together with him we plead with you not to receive the grace of God in vain (to no purpose) (in emptiness).

¹² For we are not bold to number or compare ourselves with certain of them that commend themselves. But they measure themselves by themselves, and compare themselves with themselves. They are without understanding. ¹³ But we will not boast beyond our measure, but according to the measure of the province that God apportioned to us as a measure, to reach even to you. ¹⁴ For we are not overstretching ourselves though we did not reach to you. We reached out to you with the good news of Christ. ¹⁵ We did not boast beyond our assignment in other men's labors. Having hope that, as your faith grows, we shall be made great among you according to our territory for further abundance. ¹⁶ Let us preach the good news to the parts beyond you. Let us not boast in someone else’s territory in concerning things ready for our hand.

⁸ The one who made Peter an apostle to the Jewish people (who are circumcised) also made me an apostle to the people of the nations (who are not circumcised).

⁷ So in the ages to come he, with Christ Jesus, might show the exceeding (surpassing) (exceptional) riches of his grace with kindness toward us. ⁸ By grace (Greek: charis, divine favor, loving-kindness) you have been saved through faith. It is not from you. It is the gift from God!

⁷ I was made a minister, according to the gift of God’s grace that was given me according to the working of his power. ⁸ To me, the very least of all the holy ones, was given grace (loving divine influence) to preach to the people of the nations the untraceable riches of Christ.

¹³ I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

²³ Are they ministers of Christ? I speak as a fool. I am more in labors more abundant, beaten beyond number, in prisons more frequent, in deaths often. ²⁴ Of the Jews five times I received forty stripes less one. ²⁵ Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, I suffered shipwreck three times, a night and a day I have spent in the deep. ²⁶ In journeys often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by my own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brothers; ²⁷ In weariness and painfulness, in watching often, in hunger and thirst, in fasting often, in cold and nakedness. ²⁸ Beside those things that are from the outside, that which comes upon me daily, the care of all the congregations. ²⁹ Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is offended, and I do not burn with indignation? ³⁰ If I need to boast, I will boast about the things that concern my infirmities.

¹¹ I have become a fool in boasting. You have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended about you: for in nothing am I inferior to the most prominent apostles, though I am nothing.

¹³ It is God who works in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.

²⁸ We preach Christ to everyone. With all possible wisdom we warn and teach them in order to bring each one to God as a mature individual in union with Christ. ²⁹ I work hard to get this done. I use the mighty strength Christ supplies. It is at work in me.

¹⁵ Faithful is the saying, and worthy of acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am foremost. ¹⁶ For this I obtained mercy, which in me as the foremost sinner Jesus Christ might show his long-suffering. This is for an example to those who should later believe in him for eternal life.