Whether then it is I or they, so we preach, and so you believed.
Parallel translations
- KJV Therefore whether it were I or they, so we preach, and so ye believed.
- BSB Whether, then, it was I or they, this is what we preach, and this is what you believed.
- NKJV Therefore, whether it was I or they, so we preach and so you believed.
- NASB Whether then it was I or they, so we preach and so you believed.
- NLT So it makes no difference whether I preach or they preach, for we all preach the same message you have already believed.
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 2
- 1 Cor 2:2For I determined not to know anything among you, except Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
- 1 Cor 15:3–4For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,
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