“I thank my God always on your behalf, for the grace of God which is given you by Jesus Christ;”
I always thank my God for you because of his grace given you in Christ Jesus — Paul's gratitude is not sentimental but theological: the Corinthians have received God's grace (charis). Their gifts and spiritual abundance are not achievements but divine bestowal. This gratitude precedes rebuke and models the posture Paul will urge throughout: boasting in God alone, not in self.
Church Fathers on 1 Corinthians 1:4
That which he exhorts others to do, saying, “ Philippians 4:6 Let your requests with thanksgiving be made known unto God,” the same also he used to do himself: teaching us to begin always from these words, and before all things to give thanks unto God. For nothing is so acceptable to God as that men should be thankful, both for themselves and for others: wherefore also he prefaces almost every Epistle with this. But the occasion for his doing so is even more urgent here than…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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