1 Corinthians 15:2

By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. YE ARE SAVED - rather, 'ye are being saved.' IF YE KEEP IN MEMORY WHAT I PREACHED UNTO YOU. Bengal, etc, prefer, 'I declare unto you the Gospel (1 Corinthians 15:1) in what words I preached it unto you.' Paul makes known to them, as if anew, not only the fact of the Gospel, but also with what arguments he preached it. Translate, then, 'If ye hold it fast.' I prefer, 'By which ye are saved, if (as I presume is the case, indicative) ye hold fast (in memory and personal appropriation [ katechete (G2722)]) with what speech I preached it unto you.' UNLESS - which is impos...

2._If you keep in memory _—_unless in vain _(9) These two expressions are very cutting. In the _first, _he reproves their carelessness or fickleness, because such a sudden fall was an evidence that they had never understood what had been delivered to them, or that their knowledge of it had been loose and floating, inasmuch as it had so quickly vanished. By the _second, _he warns them that they had needlessly and uselessly professed allegiance to Christ, if they did not hold fast this main doctrine. (10)...

1-11 The word resurrection, usually points out our existence beyond the grave. Of the apostle's doctrine not a trace can be found in all the teaching of philosophers. The doctrine of Christ's death and resurrection, is the foundation of Christianity. Remove this, and all our hopes for eternity sink at once. And it is by holding this truth firm, that Christians stand in the day of trial, and are kept faithful to God. We believe in vain, unless we keep in the faith of the gospel. This truth is confirmed by Old Testament prophecies; and many saw Christ after he was risen. This apostle was highly favoured, but he always had a low opinion of himself, and expressed it. When sinners are, by Divine grace, turned into saints, God causes the remembrance of former sins to make them humble, diligent, and faithful. He ascribes to Divine grace all that was valuable in him. True believers, though not...

Verse 1 Corinthians 15:2. _BY WHICH ALSO YE ARE SAVED_] That is, ye are now in a salvable state; and are saved from your Gentilism, and from your former sins. _IF YE KEEP IN MEMORY_] Your future salvation, or being brought finally to glory, will now depend on your _faithfulness_ to the grace that ye have received....

BY WHICH ALSO YE ARE SAVED - On which your salvation depends; the belief of which is indispensable to your salvation; see the note on Mark 16:16. The apostle thus shows the “importance” of the doctrine. In every respect it demanded their attention. It was that which was first preached among them; that which they had solemnly professed; that by which they had been built up; and that which was connected with their salvation. It does not mean simply that by this they were brought into a salvable state (Clarke, Macknight, Whitby, Bloomfield, etc.), but it means that their hopes of eternal life rested on this; and by this they were then “in fact” saved from the condemnation of sin, and were in the possession of the hope of eternal life. IF YE KEEP IN MEMORY - Margin, as in the Greek, “if ye hold fast.” The idea is, that they we

EXPOSITION 1 CORINTHIANS 15:1 _The doctrine of the resurrection. _This chapter, and the thirteenth, on Christian love, stand out, even among the writings of St. Paul, as pre-eminently beautiful and important. No human words ever written have brought such comfort to millions of mourners as the words of this chapter, which form a part of the Burial Service of almost every Christian community. It is the more deeply imprinted on the memory of men because it comes to us in the most solemn hours of bereavement, when we have most need of a living faith. The chapter falls into six sections. 1. The evidence of Christ's resurrection (1 Corinthians 15:1). 2. The resurrection of Christ is the foundati

BY WHICH ALSO YE ARE SAVED,.... It was the means of their salvation, and had been made the power of God unto salvation to them. Salvation is inseparably connected with true faith in Christ as a Saviour, and with a hearty belief of his resurrection from the dead, which is the earnest and pledge of the resurrection of the saints; and because of the certainty of it in the promise of God, through the obedience and death of Christ, and in the faith and hope of believers, which are sure and certain things, they are said to be saved already. To which the apostle puts in the following provisos and exceptions; the one is, IF YE KEEP IN MEMORY WHAT I PREACHED UNTO YOU; or rather, "if ye hold fast, or retain"; that is, by faith, the doctrine preached to you, and received by you, particularly the doctrine of the resurrection of the dead; for the salvation that is connected with it does not depend u...

1 Corinthians 15:1. _Moreover, brethren I declare unto you the gospel_ Mark that Paul writes concerning «the gospel.» We shall see now what «the gospel» is. 1 Corinthians 15:1. _Which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; by which also ye are saved, if you keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;_ That is the central truth of the gospel. 1 Corinthians 15:4. _And that he was buried,_ That is an essential part of the gospel.

SAVED (_ See Scofield) - (Romans 1:16). _...

III. RESURRECTION AND THE HOPE OF THE CHURCH AND CONCLUSION: Chapter S 15-16 1. Resurrection and the Hope of the Church. CHAPTER 15 _ 1. The Gospel and the Resurrection of Christ. (1 Corinthians 15:1 .)_ 2. If Christ were not raised--then what? (1 Corinthians 15:12 .) 3. Christ the Firstfruits and what follows. (1 Corinthians 15:20 .) 4. Further practical arguments about Resurrection. (1 Corinthians 15:29 .) 5. Concerning the Resurrection of the Body. ...