1 Corinthians 15:10

American Standard Version (1901)

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.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Χάριτι δὲ Θεοῦ εἰμι ὅ εἰμι: καὶ ἡ χάρις αὐτοῦ ἡ εἰς ἐμὲ οὐ κενὴ ἐγενήθη· ἀλλὰ περισσότερον αὐτῶν πάντων ἐκοπίασα: οὐκ ἐγὼ δὲ, ἀλλʼ ἡ χάρις τοῦ Θεοῦ ἡ σὺν ἐμοί.

Transliteration

Chariti de Theou eimi ho eimi: and the charis autou that toward eme not kenē egenēthē; alla perissoteron autōn pantōn ekopiasa: not egō de, all' the charis tou Theou that with emoi

Grammar Details

• *Chariti*: dative, feminine, singular - by grace
• *de*: postpositive conjunction - but/and
• *Theou*: genitive, masculine, singular - of God
• *eimi*: present active indicative, 1st person singular - am
• *ho eimi*: relative clause - what I am
• *charis*: nominative, feminine, singular - grace
• *autou*: genitive, masculine, singular - of him
• *eme*: accusative, 1st person singular - me
• *kenē*: adjective, nominative, feminine, singular - empty/vain
• *egenēthē*: aorist passive indicative, 3rd person singular - became/was
• *alla*: adversative conjunction - but
• *perissoteron*: comparative adverb - more abundantly
• *autōn pantōn*: genitive, masculine, plural - than all of them
• *ekopiasa*: aorist active indicative, 1st person singular - labored/worked hard
• *egō*: personal pronoun, nominative, 1st person singular - I
• *all'*: adversative conjunction (elided) - but
• *tou Theou*: genitive, masculine, singular - of God
• *emoi*: dative, 1st person singular - with me

Word Meanings

• *Chariti*: by grace/through grace/by the favor
• *Theou*: God/deity
• *eimi ho eimi*: I am what I am/I am who I am
• *charis*: grace/favor/kindness
• *kenē*: empty/void/without effect/vain
• *egenēthē*: became/was/turned out to be
• *alla*: but/rather/on the contrary
• *perissoteron*: more abundantly/more extensively/harder
• *ekopiasa*: labored/worked hard/toiled
• *all'*: but/rather/on the contrary

Referenced Verses

• 2 Cor 3:5 : 5 not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God;
• Gal 2:8 : 8 (for he that wrought for Peter unto the apostleship of the circumcision wrought for me also unto the Gentiles);
• Phil 2:13 : 13 for it is God who worketh in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.
• Eph 3:7-8 : 7 whereof I was made a minister, according to the gift of that grace of God which was given me according to the working of his power. 8 Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach unto the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ;
• 2 Cor 12:11 : 11 I am become foolish: ye compelled me; for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing was I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I am nothing.
• Eph 2:7-8 : 7 that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus: 8 for by grace have ye been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, [it is] the gift of God;
• 2 Cor 10:12-16 : 12 For we are not bold to number or compare ourselves with certain of them that commend themselves: but they themselves, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are without understanding. 13 But we will not glory beyond [our] measure, but according to the measure of the province which God apportioned to us as a measure, to reach even unto you. 14 For we stretch not ourselves overmuch, as though we reached not unto you: for we came even as far as unto you in the gospel of Christ: 15 not glorying beyond [our] measure, [that is], in other men's labors; but having hope that, as your faith groweth, we shall be magnified in you according to our province unto [further] abundance, 16 so as to preach the gospel even unto the parts beyond you, [and] not to glory in another's province in regard of things ready to our hand.
• Rom 12:3 : 3 For I say, through the grace that was given me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but so to think as to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to each man a measure of faith.
• Rom 15:17-20 : 17 I have therefore my glorifying in Christ Jesus in things pertaining to God. 18 For I will not dare to speak of any things save those which Christ wrought through me, for the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed, 19 in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of the Holy Spirit; so that from Jerusalem, and round about even unto Illyricum, I have fully preached the gospel of Christ; 20 yea, making it my aim so to preach the gospel, not where Christ was [already] named, that I might not build upon another man's foundation;
• 1 Cor 3:6 : 6 I planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.
• 1 Cor 4:7 : 7 For who maketh thee to differ? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? but if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory as if thou hadst not received it?
• 1 Cor 15:2 : 2 by which also ye are saved, if ye hold fast the word which I preached unto you, except ye believed in vain.
• 2 Cor 6:1 : 1 And working together [with him] we entreat also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain
• Matt 10:20 : 20 For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father that speaketh in you.
• Rom 11:1 : 1 I say then, Did God cast off his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
• Rom 11:5-6 : 5 Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace. 6 But if it is by grace, it is no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace.
• 2 Cor 11:23-30 : 23 Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself) I more; in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in deaths oft. 24 Of the Jews five times received I forty [stripes] save one. 25 Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day have I been in the deep; 26 [ in] journeyings often, [in] perils of rivers, [in] perils of robbers, [in] perils from [my] countrymen, [in] perils from the Gentiles, [in] perils in the city, [in] perils in the wilderness, [in] perils in the sea, [in] perils among false brethren; 27 [ in] labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness. 28 Besides those things that are without, there is that which presseth upon me daily, anxiety for all the churches. 29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is caused to stumble, and I burn not? 30 If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things that concern my weakness.
• Phil 4:13 : 13 I can do all things in him that strengtheneth me.
• Col 1:28-29 : 28 whom we proclaim, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ; 29 whereunto I labor also, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.
• 1 Tim 1:15-16 : 15 Faithful is the saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief: 16 howbeit for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me as chief might Jesus Christ show forth all his longsuffering, for an ensample of them that should thereafter believe on him unto eternal life.