1 Corinthians 15:10

Authorized King James Version (1611)

But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which [was bestowed] upon me was not in vain; but I laboured 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 think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency [is] of God;
• Gal 2:8 : 8 (For he that wrought effectually in Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision, the same was mighty in me toward the Gentiles:)
• Phil 2:13 : 13 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of [his] good pleasure.
• Eph 3:7-8 : 7 Whereof I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God given unto me by the effectual working of his power. 8 Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ;
• 2 Cor 12:11 : 11 ¶ I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing.
• Eph 2:7-8 : 7 That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in [his] kindness toward us through Christ Jesus. 8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: [it is] the gift of God:
• 2 Cor 10:12-16 : 12 ¶ For we dare not make ourselves of the number, or compare ourselves with some that commend themselves: but they measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise. 13 But we will not boast of things without [our] measure, but according to the measure of the rule which God hath distributed to us, a measure to reach even unto you. 14 For we stretch not ourselves beyond [our measure], as though we reached not unto you: for we are come as far as to you also in [preaching] the gospel of Christ: 15 Not boasting of things without [our] measure, [that is], of other men's labours; but having hope, when your faith is increased, that we shall be enlarged by you according to our rule abundantly, 16 To preach the gospel in the [regions] beyond you, [and] not to boast in another man's line of things made ready to our hand.
• Rom 12:3 : 3 For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think [of himself] more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.
• Rom 15:17-20 : 17 ¶ I have therefore whereof I may glory through Jesus Christ in those things which pertain to God. 18 For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ hath not wrought by me, to make the Gentiles obedient, by word and deed, 19 Through mighty signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God; so that from Jerusalem, and round about unto Illyricum, I have fully preached the gospel of Christ. 20 Yea, so have I strived to preach the gospel, not where Christ was named, lest I should build upon another man's foundation:
• 1 Cor 3:6 : 6 I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.
• 1 Cor 4:7 : 7 ¶ For who maketh thee to differ [from another]? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? now 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 keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.
• 2 Cor 6:1 : 1 ¶ We then, [as] workers together [with him], beseech [you] 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 which speaketh in you.›
• Rom 11:1 : 1 ¶ I say then, Hath God cast away 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 And if by grace, then [is it] no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if [it be] of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.
• 2 Cor 11:23-30 : 23 Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I [am] more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, 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 I have been in the deep; 26 [In] journeyings often, [in] perils of waters, [in] perils of robbers, [in] perils by [mine 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 brethren; 27 In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness. 28 Beside those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches. 29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not? 30 If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities.
• Phil 4:13 : 13 I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.
• Col 1:28-29 : 28 Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus: 29 Whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.
• 1 Tim 1:15-16 : 15 This [is] a faithful 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 first Jesus Christ might shew forth all longsuffering, for a pattern to them which should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting.