1 Corinthians 15:9 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁹For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

1 Corinthians 15:9 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ephesians 3:7-8
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. …
1 Timothy 1:13-15
Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief. …
Acts 8:3
As for Saul, he made havock of the church, entering into every house, and haling men and women committed them to prison.
2 Corinthians 12:11
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.
Acts 26:9-11
I verily thought with myself, that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth. …

Topics

Apostles Church Congregation Contrition Conviction Decision Depravity of Man Devotion

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-11)

It is the apostle’s business in this chapter to assert and establish the doctrine of the resurrection of the dead, which some of the Corinthians flatly denied, 1 Cor. 15:12. Whether they turned this doctrine into allegory, as did Hymeneus and Philetus, by saying it was already past (2 Tim. 2:17), and several of the ancient heretics, by making it mean no more than a changing of their course of life…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 9)

9. least--The name, “Paulus,” in Latin, means “least.” I persecuted the church--Though God has forgiven him, Paul can hardly forgive himself at the remembrance of his past sin.