¹Brothers and sisters, I’m making known to you the Good News which I already told you, which you received, and on which your faith is based. ²In 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. ³I passed on to you the most important points of doctrine that I had received:

Christ died to take away our sins as the Scriptures predicted.

⁴He was placed in a tomb.

He was brought back to life on the third day as the Scriptures predicted.

⁵He appeared to Cephas.^aNext he appeared to the twelve apostles. ⁶Then he appeared to more than 500 believers at one time. (Most of these people are still living, but some have died.) ⁷Next he appeared to James. Then he appeared to all the apostles. ⁸Last of all, he also appeared to me.

I’m like an aborted child ⸤who was given life⸥. ⁹I’m the least of the apostles. I’m not even fit to be called an apostle because I persecuted God’s church. ¹⁰But God’s kindness^bmade me what I am, and that kindness was not wasted on me. Instead, I worked harder than all the others. It was not I who did it, but God’s kindness was with me. ¹¹So, whether it was I or someone else, this is the message we brought you, and this is what you believed.

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1 Corinthians 15:10: 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, though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me.

Footnotes

a 15:5 Cephas is the Aramaic name for the Apostle Peter.
b 15:10 Or “grace.”