1 Corinthians 15:2

Easy To Read Version

You are saved by this message. But you must continue believing the things I told you. If you don’t do that, then you believed for nothing.

Cross References

Proverbs 23:23

Truth, wisdom, learning, and understanding are worth paying money for. And they are worth far too much to ever sell.

Proverbs 3:1

My son, don’t forget my teaching. Remember the things I tell you to do.

Proverbs 4:13

Always remember these lessons. Don’t forget these lessons. They are your life!

Luke 8:13

What is the seed that fell on rock? That is like the people that hear God’s teaching and accept it gladly. But these people don’t have deep roots. They believe for a while. But when trouble comes, they turn away from God.

Acts 2:47

The believers praised God, and all the people liked them. More and more people were being saved every day; the Lord was adding those people to the group \{of believers\}.

Acts 8:13

Simon himself also believed and was baptized. Simon stayed very close to Philip. He saw the miracles {\cf2\super [161]} and the very powerful things that Philip did. Simon was amazed.

Romans 1:16

I am proud of the Good News. The Good News is the power God uses to save every person that believes—to save the Jews first, and also to save the non-Jews.

Romans 11:22

So you see that God is kind, but he can also be very strict. God punishes those people that stop following him. But God is kind to you, if you continue following in his kindness. If you don’t continue following him, you will be cut off \{from the tree\}.

1 Corinthians 1:18

The teaching about the cross seems foolish to those people that are lost. But to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

1 Corinthians 1:21

This is what God with his wisdom wanted: The world did not know God through the world’s own wisdom. So God used the message {\cf2\super [8]} that sounds foolish to save the people that believe it.

1 Corinthians 11:2

I praise you because you remember me in all things. You follow closely the teachings that I gave you.

1 Corinthians 15:14

And if Christ has never been raised, then the message we tell people is worth nothing. And your faith is worth nothing.

2 Corinthians 2:15

Our offering to God is this: We are the sweet smell of Christ among people who are being saved and among people who are being lost.

2 Corinthians 6:1

We are workers together with God. So we beg you: Don’t let the grace (kindness) that you received from God be for nothing.

Galatians 3:4

You have experienced many things. Were all those experiences wasted? I hope they were not wasted!

Ephesians 2:8

I mean that you are saved by grace. And you got that grace by believing. You did not save yourselves. It was a gift from God.

Colossians 1:23

Christ will do this if you continue to believe in the Good News {\cf2\super [7]} you heard. You must continue strong and sure in your faith. You must not be moved away from the hope that Good News gave you. That same Good News has been told to all people in the world. I, Paul, help in telling that Good News.

2 Thessalonians 2:15

So, brothers and sisters, stand strong and continue to believe the teachings we gave you. We taught you those things in our speaking and in our letter to you.

2 Timothy 1:9

God saved us and made us his holy people. {\cf2\super [6]} That happened not because of anything we did ourselves. No! God saved us and made us his people because that was what he wanted and because of his grace (kindness). That grace was given to us through Christ Jesus before time began.

Hebrews 10:23

We should hold strongly to the hope that we have. And we should never fail to tell people about our hope. We can trust God to do what he promised.

Hebrews 2:1

So we must be more careful to follow the things that we were taught. We must be careful so that we will not be pulled away \{from the true way\}.

Hebrews 3:14

We all share together with Christ. This is true if we continue until the end to have the sure faith we had in the beginning.

Hebrews 3:6

But Christ is faithful in ruling God’s house like a Son. We \{believers\} are God’s house (family). We are God’s house if we continue to be sure and proud of the great hope we have.

James 2:14

My brothers and sisters, if a person says that he has faith, but does nothing, then that faith is worth nothing. Can faith like that save him? No!

James 2:17

It is the same with faith. If faith does nothing, then that faith is dead, because it is alone.

James 2:26

A person’s body that does not have a spirit is dead. It is the same with faith—faith that does nothing is dead!