1 Corinthians 15:1–11

Resurrection Essential to the Gospel

15 Now * brothers, I want to clarify r for you the gospel I proclaimed to you; you received it and have taken your stand s on it. 2 You are also saved by it, if you hold to the message I proclaimed to you—unless you believed for no purpose. t u 3 For I passed on to you v as most important what I also received:

that Christ died w for our sins

according to the Scriptures, x

4 that He was buried, y

that He was raised on the third day z

according to the Scriptures, a

5 and that He appeared to * Cephas, b

then to the Twelve. c

6 Then He appeared to over 500 brothers at one time; d

most of them are still alive,

but some have fallen * asleep.

7 Then He appeared to James, e

then to all the apostles. f

8 Last of all, as to one abnormally born, g h

He also appeared to me. i

9 For I am the least of the apostles, j unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted k the church of God. 10 But by God’s grace I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not ineffective. However, I worked more than any of them, yet not I, but God’s grace that was with me. l 11 Therefore, whether it is I or they, so we proclaim and so you have believed.