“You are holding it fast, unless, in fact, you became believers to no purpose.”​—1 Cor. 15:2.

Paul did not want his beloved brothers to be “believers to no purpose,” for that would mean their destruction. Rather, he wanted them to stand firm in the “good news” that he declared to them.

2. (a) Why should we today work hard in behalf of the “good news”? (b) How is the resurrection tied in with the “good news”?

² Likewise today, we live in a world that does not know God. Therefore, we who ‘have rested our hope on the living God’ must work hard and exert ourselves in behalf of the “good news.” (1 Tim. 4:10) This “good news” now focuses on the established “kingdom of our Lord [Jehovah] and of his Christ.”