The Fact of Christ’s Resurrection

1 Now aI make known to you, brethren, the bgospel which I preached to you, which also you received, cin which also you stand,

2 by which also you are saved, aif you hold fast 1the word which I preached to you, bunless you believed in vain.

3 For aI delivered to you 1as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died bfor our sins caccording to the Scriptures,

4 and that He was buried, and that He was araised on the third day baccording to the Scriptures,

5 and that aHe appeared to bCephas, then cto the twelve.

6 After that He appeared to more than five hundred brethren at one time, most of whom remain until now, but some ahave fallen asleep;

7 then He appeared to 1aJames, then to ball the apostles;

8 and last of all, as 1to one untimely born, aHe appeared to me also.

9 For I am athe least of the apostles, 1and not fit to be called an apostle, because I bpersecuted the church of God.

10 But by athe grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me did not prove vain; but I blabored even more than all of them, yet cnot I, but the grace of God with me.

11 Whether then it was I or they, so we preach and so you believed.