1 CORINTHIANS 15:2 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.”
By this gospel you are saved, if you hold firmly to the word I preached to you. Otherwise, you have believed in vain — the gospel is salvific power, but efficacy depends on perseverance. 'In vain' (eikê) suggests that forgetting or denying the resurrection empties faith of meaning. The gospel's power is real only if retained.
Church Fathers on 1 Corinthians 15:2
Having finished the discourse of spiritual gifts, he passes to that which is of all most necessary, the subject of the resurrection. For in this too they were greatly unsound. And as in men's bodies, when the fever lays actual hold of their solid parts, I mean the nerves and the veins and the primary elements, the mischief becomes incurable unless it receive much attention; just so at that time also it was like to happen. Since to the very elements of godliness the mischief…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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