Parallel Verses

NET Bible

and by which you are being saved, if you hold firmly to the message I preached to you -- unless you believed in vain.

New American Standard Bible

by which also you are saved, if you hold fast the word which I preached to you, unless you believed in vain.

King James Version

By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.

Holman Bible

You are also saved by it, if you hold to the message I proclaimed to you—unless you believed for no purpose.

International Standard Version

and by which you are also being saved if you hold firmly to the message I proclaimed to you unless, of course, your faith was worthless.

A Conservative Version

by which also ye are saved if ye hold firm that word I preached to you, unless ye believed in vain.

American Standard Version

by which also ye are saved, if ye hold fast the word which I preached unto you, except ye believed in vain.

Amplified

By this faith you are saved [reborn from above—spiritually transformed, renewed, and set apart for His purpose], if you hold firmly to the word which I preached to you, unless you believed in vain [just superficially and without complete commitment].

An Understandable Version

[and] you have been saved by it also, if you hold on to it firmly [i.e., continue believing and practicing it]. For if you do not [hold on to it firmly], you will have believed [it] all for nothing.

Anderson New Testament

by which also you are saved, if you hold fast the word which I preached to you, unless you believed in vain.

Bible in Basic English

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.

Common New Testament

by which also you are saved, if you hold fast the word which I preached to you, unless you believed in vain.

Daniel Mace New Testament

by which also you will be saved, if you so retain it as I preached it to you, unless you have believed without sufficient grounds.

Darby Translation

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.

Godbey New Testament

by which you are also saved; which word I preached to you, if you hold it fast, otherwise you believed in vain.

Goodspeed New Testament

and through which you are to be saved, if you hold on, unless your faith has been all for nothing.

John Wesley New Testament

By which also ye are saved, if ye retain what I preached to you, unless ye have believed in vain.

Julia Smith Translation

By which also ye are saved, to which word I announced to you if ye hold, unless ye believed to no purpose.

King James 2000

By which also you are saved, if you keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless you have believed in vain.

Lexham Expanded Bible

by which you are also being saved, if you hold fast to the message I proclaimed to you, unless you believed to no purpose.

Modern King James verseion

by which you also are being kept safe, if you hold fast the word which I preached to you, unless you believed in vain.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

by the which also ye are saved - I do you to know, after what manner I preached unto you - if ye keep it, except ye have believed in vain.

Moffatt New Testament

the gospel by which you are saved ??provided you adhere to my statement of it ??unless indeed your faith was all haphazard.

Montgomery New Testament

by which also you are saved, if you are holding fast the message which I preached to you; unless indeed you have believed in vain.

New Heart English Bible

by which also you are saved, if you hold firmly the word which I preached to you?unless you believed in vain.

Noyes New Testament

by which also ye are saved, if ye hold fast the same word which I preached to you, unless ye believed in vain.

Sawyer New Testament

by which also you are saved, if you adhere to the word we preached to you, unless indeed you believed in vain.

The Emphasized Bible

Through which also ye are being saved, - if ye hold fast, with what discourse, I announced the joyful message unto you; unless indeed, in vain, ye believed.

Thomas Haweis New Testament

by which also ye are saved; if ye cleave to that word I have preached to you, except haply ye have believed in vain.

Twentieth Century New Testament

And by means of which you are being saved. I would remind you of the very words that I used in telling it to you, since you are still holding fast to it, and since it was not in vain that you became believers in Christ.

Webster

By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached to you, unless ye have believed in vain.

Weymouth New Testament

through which also you are obtaining salvation, if you bear in mind the words in which I proclaimed it--unless indeed your faith has been unreal from the very first.

Williams New Testament

and through which you are to be saved, unless your faith at first was spurious.

World English Bible

by which also you are saved, if you hold firmly the word which I preached to you -- unless you believed in vain.

Worrell New Testament

through which also ye are saved, if ye hold fast the word which I proclaimed to you, unless ye believed in vain.

Worsley New Testament

By which also ye are saved, if ye retain it as I preached it to you: unless indeed ye have believed in vain.

Youngs Literal Translation

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,

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
By
διά 
Dia 
by, through, with, for, for ... sake, therefore , for this cause , because,
Usage: 527

ὅς ἥ ὅ 
Hos 
Usage: 980


and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
Usage: 0

ye are saved
σώζω 
Sozo 
Usage: 79

if
εἰ 
Ei 
if, whether, that, not tr,
Usage: 218

ye keep in memory
κατέχω 
Katecho 
Usage: 16

τίς 
Tis 
Usage: 373

εὐαγγελίζω 
Euaggelizo 
Usage: 50

ὑμῖν 
Humin 
you, ye, your, not tr,
Usage: 293

ἐκτός 
Ektos 
Usage: 8

πιστεύω 
Pisteuo 
Usage: 163

Devotionals

Devotionals containing 1 Corinthians 15:2

Images 1 Corinthians 15:2

Prayers for 1 Corinthians 15:2

Context Readings

Paul's Gospel And The Resurrection Of Christ

1 Now I want to make clear for you, brothers and sisters, the gospel that I preached to you, that you received and on which you stand, 2 and by which you are being saved, if you hold firmly to the message I preached to you -- unless you believed in vain. 3 For I passed on to you as of first importance what I also received -- that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures,


Cross References

Galatians 3:4

Have you suffered so many things for nothing? -- if indeed it was for nothing.

Romans 1:16

For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is God's power for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.

1 Corinthians 1:18

For the message about the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

Hebrews 3:6

But Christ is faithful as a son over God's house. We are of his house, if in fact we hold firmly to our confidence and the hope we take pride in.

Hebrews 3:14

For we have become partners with Christ, if in fact we hold our initial confidence firm until the end.

Psalm 106:12-13

They believed his promises; they sang praises to him.

Proverbs 3:1

My child, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments,

Proverbs 4:13

Hold on to instruction, do not let it go; protect it, because it is your life.

Proverbs 6:20-23

My child, guard the commands of your father and do not forsake the instruction of your mother.

Proverbs 23:23

Acquire truth and do not sell it -- wisdom, and discipline, and understanding.

Luke 8:13

Those on the rock are the ones who receive the word with joy when they hear it, but they have no root. They believe for a while, but in a time of testing fall away.

John 8:31-32

Then Jesus said to those Judeans who had believed him, "If you continue to follow my teaching, you are really my disciples

Acts 2:47

praising God and having the good will of all the people. And the Lord was adding to their number every day those who were being saved.

Acts 8:13

Even Simon himself believed, and after he was baptized, he stayed close to Philip constantly, and when he saw the signs and great miracles that were occurring, he was amazed.

Romans 11:22

Notice therefore the kindness and harshness of God -- harshness toward those who have fallen, but God's kindness toward you, provided you continue in his kindness; otherwise you also will be cut off.

1 Corinthians 1:21

For since in the wisdom of God the world by its wisdom did not know God, God was pleased to save those who believe by the foolishness of preaching.

1 Corinthians 15:11-12

Whether then it was I or they, this is the way we preach and this is the way you believed.

1 Corinthians 15:14

And if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is futile and your faith is empty.

2 Corinthians 2:15

For we are a sweet aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing --

2 Corinthians 6:1

Now because we are fellow workers, we also urge you not to receive the grace of God in vain.

Ephesians 2:8

For by grace you are saved through faith, and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God;

Colossians 1:23

if indeed you remain in the faith, established and firm, without shifting from the hope of the gospel that you heard. This gospel has also been preached in all creation under heaven, and I, Paul, have become its servant.

2 Thessalonians 2:15

Therefore, brothers and sisters, stand firm and hold on to the traditions that we taught you, whether by speech or by letter.

2 Timothy 1:9

He is the one who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not based on our works but on his own purpose and grace, granted to us in Christ Jesus before time began,

Hebrews 2:1

Therefore we must pay closer attention to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away.

Hebrews 4:14

Therefore since we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast to our confession.

Hebrews 10:23

And let us hold unwaveringly to the hope that we confess, for the one who made the promise is trustworthy.

James 2:14

What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but does not have works? Can this kind of faith save him?

James 2:17

So also faith, if it does not have works, is dead being by itself.

James 2:26

For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.

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