For if I by grace be a partaker, why am I evil spoken of for that for which I give thanks?
Ver. 30. For if I by grace] Or, by thanksgiving. The same Greek word, χαρις, signifies both; to teach us, that a grateful man is a gracious man. The unthankful and the evil are set together as the same, Luke 6:35. God is "kind to the unthankful, and to the evil."