1 Corinthians 15:2

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Summary

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

2 Timothy 1:9

Keep in memory

Hebrews 10:23

Unless

James 2:14

General references

1 Corinthians 15:14

Bible References

Ye are

The Message of the Cross is indeed mere folly to those who are in the path to Ruin, but to us who are in the path of Salvation it is the very power of God.

And the Lord daily added to their company those who were in the path of Salvation.

For we are the fragrance of Christ ascending to God--both among those who are in the path of Salvation and among those who are in the path to Ruin.

For it is by God's loving-kindness that you have been saved, through your faith. It is not due to yourselves; the gift is God's.

It was God who saved us, and from him we received our solemn Call--not as a reward for anything that we had done, but in fulfillment of his own loving purpose. For that love was extended to us, through Christ Jesus, before time began,

Keep in memory

Whether, then, it was I or whether it was they, this we proclaim, and this you believed.

If only you remain true to your Faith, firm and immovable, never abandoning the hope held out in the Good News to which you listened, which has been proclaimed among all created things under Heaven, and of which I, Paul, was made a minister.

Stand firm then, Brothers, and hold fast to the truths that we taught you, whether by word or by letter.

Therefore we must give still more heed to what we were taught, for fear we should drift away.

the faithfulness of Christ was that of a Son set over the House of God. And we are his House--if only we retain, unshaken to the end, the courage and confidence inspired by our hope.

We have, then, in Jesus, the Son of God, a great High Priest who has passed into the highest Heaven; let us, therefore, hold fast to the Faith which we have professed.

Let us maintain the confession of our hope unshaken, for he who has given us his promise will not fail us.

Unless

And, if Christ has not been raised, then our proclamation is without meaning, and our faith without meaning also!

By the seed which fell upon the rock are meant those who, as soon as they hear the Message, welcome it joyfully; but they have no root, and believe it only for a time, and, when the time of temptation comes, they draw back.

So Jesus went on to say to those Jews who had believed him: "If you remain constant to my Message, you are truly my disciples;

Even Simon believed, and after his baptism attached himself to Philip, and was in his turn mystified at seeing signs and great miracles constantly occurring.

Therefore, as God's fellow-workers, we also appeal to you not to receive his loving-kindness in vain.

Did you go through so much to no purpose?--if indeed it really was to no purpose!

My Brothers, what is the good of a man's saying that he has faith, if he does not prove it by actions? Can such faith save him?

General references

And, if Christ has not been raised, then our proclamation is without meaning, and our faith without meaning also!