RESURRECTION ESSENTIAL TO THE GOSPEL

15 Now I want to make clear for you, brothers and sisters, the gospel I preached to you, which you received, on which you have taken your standd 2 and by which you are being saved, if you hold to the message I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.e 3 For I passed on to youf as most important what I also received: that Christ diedg for our sins according to the Scriptures,h 4 that he was buried,i that he was raised on the third dayj according to the Scriptures,k 5 and that he appeared to Cephas,l then to the Twelve.m 6 Then he appeared to over five hundred brothers and sisters at one time;n most of them are still alive, but some have fallen asleep. 7 Then he appeared to James,o then to all the apostles.p 8 Last of all, as to one born at the wrong time,C,q he also appeared to me.r

9 For I am the least of the apostles,s not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecutedt the church of God. 10 But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me.u 11 Whether, then, it is I or they, so we proclaim and so you have believed.