“Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim that anything comes from us, but our competence comes from God. To this end I labor, striving with all His energy working powerfully within me.”

But whatever I am now, it is all because God poured out his special favor on me and not without results. For I have worked harder than any of the other apostles; yet it was not I, but God who was working through me by his grace.1 Corinthians 15:10