But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me was not without effect. No, I worked harder than all of them—yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me — Paul resolves the paradox: he is unworthy yet effective, not because of his own effort but because grace worked through him. His labor (kopiao: to toil, exhaust) is real but grace-motivated and grace-empowered.

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