1 Corinthians 15:2

1 Corinthians 15:2

The Risen Christ, Faith’s Reality

1 Moreover, brethren, I declare to you the gospel ^awhich I preached to you, which also you received and ^bin which you stand,

2 ^aby which also you are saved, if you hold fast that word which I preached to you—unless ^byou believed in vain.

3 For ^aI delivered to you first of all that ^bwhich I also received: that Christ died for our sins ^caccording to the Scriptures,

4 and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day ^aaccording to the Scriptures,

5 ^aand that He was seen by¹ Cephas, then ^bby the twelve.

6 After that He was seen by over five hundred brethren at once, of whom the greater part remain to the present, but some have¹ fallen asleep.

7 After that He was seen by James, then ^aby all the apostles.

8 ^aThen last of all He was seen by me also, as by one born out of due time.

9 For I am ^athe least of the apostles, who am not worthy to be called an apostle, because ^bI persecuted the church of God.

10 But ^aby the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all, ^byet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

Commentaries:

Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)

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In what words I preached it unto you (tini logoi euhggelisamhn umin). Almost certainly tiv (tini logoi, locative or instrumental, in or with) here is used like the relative ov as is common in papyri (Moulton, Prolegomena, p. 93f.; Robertson, Grammar, p. 737f.). Even so it is not clear whether the clause depends on gnwrizw like the other relatives, but most likely so.

If we hold it fast (ei katexete). Condition of first class. Paul assumes that they are holding it fast.

Except ye believed in vain (ektov ei mh eikh episteusate). For ektov ei mh see on I Corinthians 14:5. Condition of first class, unless in fact ye did believe to no purpose (eikh, old adverb, only in Paul in N.T.). Paul holds this peril over them in their temptation to deny the resurrection.

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