1 Corinthians 15:1–11

The Risen Christ, Faith’s Reality

15Moreover, brethren, I declare to you the gospel ^awhich I preached to you, which also you received and ^bin which you stand, ^2cby which also you are saved, if you hold fast that word which I preached to you—unless ^dyou believed in vain.

³For ^eI delivered to you first of all that ^fwhich I also received: that Christ died for our sins ^gaccording to the Scriptures, ⁴and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day ^haccording to the Scriptures, ⁵ⁱand that He was seen by ¹Cephas, then ^jby the twelve. ⁶After that He was seen by over five hundred brethren at once, of whom the greater part remain to the present, but some have ²fallen asleep. ⁷After that He was seen by James, then ^kby all the apostles. ^8lThen last of all He was seen by me also, as by one born out of due time.

⁹For I am ^mthe least of the apostles, who am not worthy to be called an apostle, because ⁿI persecuted the church of God. ¹⁰But ^oby the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all, ^pyet not I, but the grace of God which was with me. ¹¹Therefore, whether it was I or they, so we preach and so you believed.