1 Corinthians 15:10 - Exposition

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 worketh in you" ( Philippians 2:13 ; Matthew 10:20 ; Colossians 1:29 ).