1 Corinthians 15:2
Modern Translations
New International Version
By this gospel you are saved, if you hold firmly to the word I preached to you. Otherwise, you have believed in vain.

New Living Translation
It is this Good News that saves you if you continue to believe the message I told you—unless, of course, you believed something that was never true in the first place.

English Standard Version
and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.

Berean Study Bible
By this gospel you are saved, if you hold firmly to the word I preached to you. Otherwise, you have believed in vain.

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

NASB 1995
by which also you are saved, if you hold fast the word which I preached to you, unless you believed in vain.

NASB 1977
by which also you are saved, if you hold fast the word which I preached to you, unless you believed in vain.

Amplified Bible
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].

Christian Standard Bible
and by which you are being saved, if you hold to the message I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
You are also saved by it, if you hold to the message I proclaimed to you--unless you believed for no purpose.

Contemporary English Version
You will be saved by this message, if you hold firmly to it. But if you don't, your faith was all for nothing.

Good News Translation
That is the gospel, the message that I preached to you. You are saved by the gospel if you hold firmly to it--unless it was for nothing that you believed.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
In addition, you are saved by this Good News if you hold on to the doctrine I taught you, unless you believed it without thinking it over.

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.

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

New King James Version
by which also you are saved, if you hold fast that word which I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.

King James 2000 Bible
By which also you are saved, if you keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless 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.

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.

American King James Version
By which also you are saved, if you keep in memory what I preached to you, unless you have 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.

A Faithful Version
By which you are also being saved, if you are holding fast the words that I proclaimed to you; otherwise you have believed in vain.

Darby Bible 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.

English Revised Version
by which also ye are saved; I make known, I say, in what words I preached it unto you, if ye hold it fast, except ye believed in vain.

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

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
And whereby ye are saued, if ye keepe in memorie, after what maner I preached it vnto you, except ye haue beleeued in vaine.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
By the which also ye are saued, yf ye kepe in memorie after what maner I preached vnto you, except ye haue beleued in vayne.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
by the which also ye are saued) after what maner I preached it vnto you, yf ye haue kepte it, excepte ye haue beleued in vayne.

Tyndale Bible of 1526
by which also ye are saved: I do you to wit after what maner I preached vnto you yf ye kepe it except ye have beleved in vayne.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
through which you are also being saved, if you hold fast [to] the word—what I proclaimed as good news to you—unless you believed in vain.

Berean Literal Bible
by which you are also being saved, if you hold fast to the word I proclaimed to you; otherwise you have believed in vain.

Young's 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,

Smith's Literal Translation
By which also ye are saved, to which word I announced to you if ye hold, unless ye believed to no purpose.

Literal Emphasis Translation
through which you are also being saved with what word I preached to you if you hold fast unless you have believed in vain.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
By which also you are saved, if you hold fast after what manner I preached unto you, unless you have believed in vain.

Catholic Public Domain Version
By the Gospel, too, you are being saved, if you hold to the understanding that I preached to you, lest you believe in vain.

Translations from Aramaic
Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And by it you have life in that message which I preached to you, if you remember, unless you have believed worthlessly.

Lamsa Bible
By which also you are saved if you keep in remembrance that very word which I have preached to you, and if your conversion has not been in vain.

NT Translations
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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.
















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