Verse of the Day
Author Spotlight
Loading featured author...
Report Issue
See a formatting issue or error?
Let us know →
by which also you are saved, if you hold firmly the word which I preached to you -- unless you believed in vain.
Verse Takeaways
1
Faith That Holds Fast
Commentators explain that salvation is linked to a faith that actively "holds fast" to the gospel. This isn't about perfect memory, but a persevering, genuine belief. Scholars like John Gill and Charles Spurgeon contrast this with a "nominal" or "merely notional" faith, which the verse warns could be "in vain."
See 3 Verse Takeaways
Book Overview
1 Corinthians
Author
Audience
Composition
Teaching Highlights
Outline
+ 5 more
See Overview
13
18th Century
Presbyterian
By which also you are saved. On which your salvation depends; the belief of which is indispensable to your salvation. ().
The apost…
In what words I preached it unto you (τιν λογο ευηγγελισαμην υμιν). Almost certainly τις (τιν λογο, locative or instrumental, in o…
19th Century
Anglican
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 yo…
Your support helps us maintain this resource for everyone
Baptist
Moreover, brothers, I declare to you the gospel which I preached to you, which also you have received, and in which you stand. By which also yo…
Paul begins by reminding the Corinthian Christians that the resurrection is an integral part of the Gospel he had preached and they had received an…
16th Century
Protestant
If you keep in memory — unless in vain. These two expressions are very cutting. In the first, he reproves their careless…
Get curated content & updates
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
By which also you are saved It was the means of their salvation, and had been made the power of God unto salvation t…
The word resurrection usually points to our existence beyond the grave. Not a trace of the apostle's doctrine can be found in all the teaching of p…
13th Century
Catholic
After instructing the Corinthians about the sacrament and the reality it contains and signifies—namely, grace and its effects—the Apostle now instr…
