Parallel Verses

A Conservative Version

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

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.

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 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 And, brothers, I make known to you the good-news that I preached to you, which also ye received, and in which ye stand, 2 by which also ye are saved if ye hold firm that word I preached to you, unless ye believed in vain. 3 For I delivered to you at first what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures,


Cross References

Galatians 3:4

Did ye suffer so many things in vain? If it is indeed in vain.

Romans 1:16

For I am not ashamed of the good-news of Christ, for it is the power of God for salvation to every man who believes, both to the Jew first, and to the Greek.

1 Corinthians 1:18

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

Hebrews 3:6

but Christ as a Son over his house, whose house we are, if only we keep in possession our confidence and pride of hope, firm until the end.

Hebrews 3:14

For we have become companions of the Christ, if only we keep in possession the primacy of the essence, steadfast until the end,

Psalm 106:12-13

Then they believed his words. They sang his praise.

Proverbs 3:1

My son, do not forget my law, but let thy heart keep my commandments.

Proverbs 4:13

Take firm hold of instruction. Do not let her go. Keep her, for she is thy life.

Proverbs 6:20-23

My son, keep the commandment of thy father, and do not forsake the law of thy mother.

Luke 8:13

And those on the rock are those who, when they hear, receive the word with joy. And these have no root, who believe for a time, and withdraw in time of trial.

John 8:31-32

Jesus therefore said to those Jews who believed him, If ye remain in my word, ye are truly my disciples,

Acts 2:47

praising God, and having favor with the whole populace. And the Lord was adding to the church daily those being saved.

Acts 8:13

And Simon himself also believed. And after being immersed, he was continuing with Philip. And seeing miracles and signs occurring, he was astonished.

Romans 11:22

Behold therefore the goodness and the severity of God. Indeed toward those who fell, severity, but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness, otherwise thou too will be cut off.

1 Corinthians 1:21

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

1 Corinthians 15:11-12

Therefore whether I or those men, so we proclaim, and so ye believed.

1 Corinthians 15:14

And if Christ has not risen, then our preaching is empty, and your faith is also empty.

2 Corinthians 2:15

Because we are a fragrance of Christ to God, in those being saved and in those perishing:

2 Corinthians 6:1

And working jointly, we urge you also not to receive the grace of God in vain

Ephesians 2:8

For ye are saved by grace through faith, and this a gift of God, not from you,

Colossians 1:23

If ye truly continue in the faith, founded, and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the good-news that ye heard, which was proclaimed in all creation under heaven, of which I Paul became a helper.

2 Thessalonians 2:15

So then, brothers, stand firm and hold to the traditions that ye were taught, whether by word or by letter from us.

2 Timothy 1:9

Who saved us and who called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before times eternal.

Hebrews 2:1

Because of this we ought to give more earnest heed to the things that were heard, lest we might slip away.

Hebrews 4:14

Having therefore a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us take hold of the affirmation.

Hebrews 10:23

Let us hold firm the affirmation of the hope unwavering, for he who promised is faithful.

James 2:14

What is the benefit, my brothers, if some man should say to have faith, but has no works? Can the faith save him?

James 2:17

So also faith, if it has no works, is dead by itself.

James 2:26

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

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