1 Corinthians 15:1–11

The Resurrection of Christ

¹⁵Now I want you to understand, brothers and sisters, the good news^g that I proclaimed to you, which you in turn received, in which also you stand,^{* 2}through which also you are being saved, if you hold firmly to the message that I proclaimed to you—unless you have come to believe in vain.^*

³For I handed on to you as of first importance what I in turn had received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the scriptures^{* 4}and that he was buried and that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the scriptures^{* 5}and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve.^{* 6}Then he appeared to more than five hundred brothers and sisters at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have died.^{h 7}Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles.^{* 8}Last of all, as to one untimely born, he appeared also to me.^{* 9}For I am the least of the apostles, unfit to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.^{* 10}But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me has not been 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.^{* 11}Whether then it was I or they, so we proclaim and so you believed.