1st Corinthians Chapter 15 verse 2 Holy Bible
by which also ye are saved, if ye hold fast the word which I preached unto you, except ye believed in vain.
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By which you have salvation; that is to say, the form in which it was given to you, if it is fixed in your minds, and if your faith in it is not without effect.
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by which also ye are saved, (if ye hold fast the word which I announced to you as the glad tidings,) unless indeed ye have believed in vain.
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By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.
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by which also you are saved, if you hold firmly the word which I preached to you--unless you believed in vain.
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through which also ye are being saved, in what words I proclaimed good news to you, if ye hold fast, except ye did believe in vain,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 2. - By which also ye are saved; literally, ye are being saved. It is as if some surprise was expressed at the necessity for again making known to them a gospel which (1) he had preached and (2) they also received; and (3) in which they now stood fast (Romans 5:2; Ephesians 6:13); and . . .
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(2) If ye keep in memory what I preached unto you.--Better, if ye hold fast with what word I preached the gospel to you, unless you believed in vain. The idea here is not, as implied in the English version, that they were converted, and yet that heretofore no results have followed from their belief; it is the same thought which comes out more fully in 1Corinthians 15:17. They are saved by their faith in the gospel as preached by St. Paul, unless (which is impossible) the whole gospel be false, and so their faith in it be vain and useless.
