1 Corinthians 15:2 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

² by which you are saved, if you hold it fast—unless you believed in vain.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² by which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² And by which you are saved, if you hold fast and keep firmly what I preached to you, unless you believed at first without effect and all for nothing.

American Standard Version (1901)

² by which also ye are saved, if ye hold fast the word which I preached unto you, except ye believed in vain.

Common English Bible

² You are being saved through it if you hold on to the message I preached to you, unless somehow you believed it for nothing.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² By the Gospel, too, you are being saved, if you hold to the understanding that I preached to you, lest you believe in vain.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

² By which also you are saved, if you hold fast after what manner I preached unto you, unless you have believed in vain.

1 Corinthians 15:2 Cross References

Proverbs 23:23

Buy truth, and do not sell it; buy wisdom, instruction, and understanding.

Proverbs 3:1

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

Proverbs 4:13

Keep hold of instruction, do not let go; guard her, for she is your life.

Luke 8:13

And the ones on the rock are those who, when they hear the word, receive it with joy; but these have no root, they believe for a while and in time of temptation fall away.

Acts 2:47

praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to their number day by day those who were being saved.

Acts 8:13

Even Simon himself believed, and after being baptized he continued with Philip. And seeing signs and great miracles performed, he was amazed.

Romans 1:16

For I am not ashamed of the gospel: it is the power of God for salvation to every one who has faith, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.

Romans 11:22

Note then the kindness and the severity of God: severity toward those who have fallen, but God's kindness to you, provided you continue in his kindness; otherwise you too will be cut off.

1 Corinthians 1:18

For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

1 Corinthians 1:21

For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe.

1 Corinthians 11:2

I commend you because you remember me in everything and maintain the traditions even as I have delivered them to you.

1 Corinthians 15:14

if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain.

2 Corinthians 2:15

For we are the aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing,

2 Corinthians 6:1

Working together with him, then, we entreat you not to accept the grace of God in vain.

Galatians 3:4

Did you experience so many things in vain?—if it really is in vain.

Ephesians 2:8

For by grace you have been saved through faith; and this is not your own doing, it is the gift of God—

Colossians 1:23

provided that you continue in the faith, stable and steadfast, not shifting from the hope of the gospel which you heard, which has been preached to every creature under heaven, and of which I, Paul, became a minister.

2 Thessalonians 2:15

So then, brethren, stand firm and hold to the traditions which you were taught by us, either by word of mouth or by letter.

2 Timothy 1:9

who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not in virtue of our works but in virtue of his own purpose and the grace which he gave us in Christ Jesus ages ago,

Hebrews 10:23

Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful;

Hebrews 2:1

Therefore we must pay the closer attention to what we have heard, lest we drift away from it.

Hebrews 3:14

For we share in Christ, if only we hold our first confidence firm to the end,

Hebrews 3:6

but Christ was faithful over God's house as a son. And we are his house if we hold fast our confidence and pride in our hope.

Hebrews 4:14

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

James 2:14

What does it profit, my brethren, if a man says he has faith but has not works? Can his faith save him?

James 2:17

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

James 2:26

For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so faith apart from works is dead.