1 Corinthians 15:2 — Compare Translations

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English (YLT) 1898 Young's Literal Translation by Robert Young

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,

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

English Amplified

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.

English Amplified Classic Bible 1987

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.

English Berean Standard Bible (BSB) 2025

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

English CSB 2017 - 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.

English Darby 1890 : Public Domain

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 EASY 2024

Because of that good news, God will save you. But you must continue to trust the message that I told you. If you do not, you have believed it for nothing.

English ERV 2006 - Only For Website

It is that Good News that saves you, but you must continue believing the message just as I told it to you. If you don't, then you believed for nothing.

English ESV 2016 == The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. ESV® Text Edition: 2016. Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles

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

English GNT (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.

English God's Word - GW 1995

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.

English HCSB 2004 - Copyrighted Only For Website

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

English KJV 1611

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

by which also you are saved, if you hold fast the word which I proclaimed to you as good news, unless you believed for nothing.

English MEV 2014 (Modern English Version)

Through it you are saved, if you keep in memory what I preached to you, unless you have believed in vain.

English NASB (New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995)

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

English NASU 1989 - New American Standard Update - Only for Website

Through it you are also being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you, unless you believed in vain.

English NET Bible - 2005 (New English Translation)

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

English NIRV 1996 - Copyrighted only for Website

Because you believed the good news, you are saved. But you must hold firmly to the message I preached to you. If you don't, you have believed it for nothing.

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

English NKJ 1982

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

And it is this Good News that saves you if you firmly believe it--unless, of course, you believed something that was never true in the first place.

English NRSV 1989 - Only for website

through which also you are being saved, if you hold firmly to the message that I proclaimed to you-- unless you have come to believe in vain.

English Passion Translation Bible 2020

For it is through the revelation of the gospel that you are being saved, if you fasten your life firmly to the message I’ve taught you, unless you have believed in vain.

English RSV (Revised Standard Version)

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

English TL (The Living Bible) (1971)

and it is this Good News that saves you if you still firmly believe it, unless of course you never really believed it in the first place.

English Tyndale 1537

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