1 Corinthians 15:11

Bible in Basic English (1941)

If then it is I who am the preacher, or they, this is our word, and to this you have given your faith.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Cor 2:2 : 2 For I had made the decision to have knowledge of nothing among you but only of Jesus Christ on the cross.
  • 1 Cor 15:3-4 : 3 For I gave to you first of all what was handed down to me, how Christ underwent death for our sins, as it says in the Writings; 4 And he was put in the place of the dead; and on the third day he came back from the dead, as it says in the Writings;

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    9 For I am the least of the Apostles, having no right to be named an Apostle, because of my cruel attacks on the church of God.

    10 But by the grace of God, I am what I am: and his grace which was given to me has not been for nothing; for I did more work than all of them; though not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

  • 12 Now if the good news says that Christ came back from the dead, how do some of you say that there is no coming back from the dead?

  • 11 But we have faith that we will get salvation through the grace of the Lord Jesus in the same way as they.

  • Gal 1:10-11
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    10 Am I now using arguments to men, or God? or is it my desire to give men pleasure? if I was still pleasing men, I would not be a servant of Christ.

    11 Because I say to you, my brothers, that the good news of which I was the preacher is not man's.

  • 5 What then is Apollos? and what is Paul? They are but servants who gave you the good news as God gave it to them.

  • 1 Cor 15:1-2
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    1 Now I am going to make clear to you, my brothers, what the good news was which I gave to you, and which you took, and on which your faith is based,

    2 By which you have salvation; that is to say, the form in which it was given to you, if it is fixed in your minds, and if your faith in it is not without effect.

  • 13 But having the same spirit of faith, as it is said in the Writings, The words of my mouth came from the faith in my heart; in the same way, our words are the outcome of our faith;

  • 17 If then God gave them, when they had faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, the same as he gave to us, who was I to go against God?

  • Phil 1:17-18
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    17 But those are preaching Christ in a spirit of competition, not from their hearts, but with the purpose of giving me pain in my prison.

    18 What then? only that in every way, falsely or truly, the preaching of Christ goes on; and in this I am glad, and will be glad.

  • 2 Cor 11:5-7
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    5 For in my opinion, I am in no way less than the most important of the Apostles.

    6 But though I am rough in my way of talking, I am not so in knowledge, as we have made clear to all by our acts among you.

    7 Or did I do wrong in making myself low so that you might be lifted up, because I gave you the good news of God without reward?

  • 1 So take me for your example, even as I take Christ for mine.

  • 13 For if we are foolish, it is to God; or if we are serious, it is for you.

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    21 I say this by way of shaming ourselves, as if we had been feeble. But if anyone puts himself forward (I am talking like a foolish person), I will do the same.

    22 Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they of Israel? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I.

  • 11 Of which I was made a preacher and an Apostle and a teacher;

  • 15 But I have, in some measure, less fear in writing to you to put these things before you again, because of the grace which was given to me by God,

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    12 That is, that some of you say, I am of Paul; some say, I am of Apollos; some say, I am of Cephas; and some say, I am Christ's.

    13 Is there a division in Christ? was Paul nailed to the cross for you? or were you given baptism in the name of Paul?

  • 2 If to others I am not an Apostle, at least I am one to you: for the fact that you are Christians is the sign that I am an Apostle.

  • 12 But what I do, that I will go on doing, so that I may give no chance to those who are looking for one; so that, in the cause of their pride, they may be seen to be the same as we are.

  • Rom 15:17-20
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    17 So I have pride in Christ Jesus in the things which are God's.

    18 And I will keep myself from talking of anything but those things which Christ has done by me to put the Gentiles under his rule in word and in act,

    19 By signs and wonders, in the power of the Holy Spirit; so that from Jerusalem and round about as far as Illyricum I have given all the good news of Christ;

    20 Making it my purpose not to take the good news where Christ was named, so that my work might not be resting on that of others;

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    16 I say again, Let me not seem foolish to anyone; but if I do, put up with me as such, so that I may take a little glory to myself.

    17 What I am now saying is not by the order of the Lord, but as a foolish person, taking credit to myself, as it seems.

    18 Seeing that there are those who take credit to themselves after the flesh, I will do the same.

  • 30 Fighting the same fight which you saw in me, and now have word of in me.

  • 5 So we, though we are a number of persons, are one body in Christ, and are dependent on one another;

  • 5 Because our good news came to you, not in word only, but in power, and in the Holy Spirit, so that you were completely certain of it; even as you saw what our behaviour to you was like from our love to you.

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    15 But I have not made use of any of these things: and I am not writing this in the hope that it may be so for me: for it would be better for me to undergo death, than for any man to make this pride of mine of no effect.

    16 For if I am a preacher of the good news, I have no cause for pride in this; because I am forced to do so, for a curse is on me if I do not.

  • 15 Yes, and we are seen to be false witnesses of God; because we gave witness of God that by his power Christ came again from the dead: which is not true if there is no coming back from the dead.

  • 10 As the true word of Christ is in me, I will let no man take from me this my cause of pride in the country of Achaia.

  • 23 And I do all things for the cause of the good news, so that I may have a part in it.

  • 10 I am certain about you in the Lord, that you will be of no other mind; but he who is troubling you will have his punishment, whoever he is.

  • 12 That is to say, that all of us may be comforted together by the faith which is in you and in me.

  • 12 My desire for you, brothers, is that you may be as I am, because I am as you are. You have done me no wrong;

  • 10 In the measure of the grace given to me, I, as a wise master-builder, have put the base in position, and another goes on building on it. But let every man take care what he puts on it.

  • 11 I have been forced by you to become foolish, though it was right for my praise to have come from you: for in no way was I less than the chief of the Apostles, though I am nothing.

  • 9 For you have the memory, my brothers, of our trouble and care; how, working night and day, so that we might not be a trouble to any of you, we gave you the good news of God.

  • 8 For though I might take pride in our authority (which the Lord gave for building you up, and not for your destruction), it will not be a cause of shame to me:

  • 15 And that he underwent death for all, so that the living might no longer be living to themselves, but to him who underwent death for them and came back from the dead.

  • 6 But from those who seemed to be important (whatever they were has no weight with me: God does not take man's person into account): those who seemed to be important gave nothing new to me;