^15:1Now I want to make clear for you,¹ brothers and sisters,² the gospel that I preached to you, that you received and on which you stand, ^15:2and by which you are being saved, if you hold firmly to the message I preached to you—unless you believed in vain. ^15:3For I passed on to you as of first importance³ what I also received—that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures, ^15:4and that he was buried, and that he was raised⁴ on the third day according to the scriptures, ^15:5and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. ^15:6Then he appeared to more than five hundred of the brothers and sisters⁵ at one time, most of whom are still alive,⁶ though some have fallen asleep.⁷^15:7Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles. ^15:8Last of all, as though to one born at the wrong time,⁸ he appeared to me also. ^15:9For I am the least of the apostles, unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. ^15:10But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me has not been in vain. In fact, I worked harder than all of them—yet not I, but the grace of God with me. ^15:11Whether then it was I or they, this is the way we preach and this is the way 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

1 Grk “Now I make known to you.”
2 Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in .
3 Grk “among (the) first things.”
4 Grk “he has been raised/is raised,” using a Greek tense that points to the present effect of the act of raising him. But in English idiom the temporal phrase “on the third day” requires a different translation of the verb.
5 Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in .
6 Grk “most of whom remain until now.”
7 The verb κοιμάω (koimaō) literally means “sleep,” but it is often used in the Bible as a euphemism for death when speaking of believers. This metaphorical usage by its very nature emphasizes the hope of resurrection: Believers will one day “wake up” out of death. Here the term refers to death, but “sleep” was used in the translation to emphasize the metaphorical, rhetorical usage of the term.
8 One born at the wrong time. The Greek word used here (ἔκτρωμα, ektrōma) refers to a premature birth, a miscarriage, or an aborted child. Paul uses it as a powerful figure of the unexpected, abnormal nature of his apostolic call.