[their] stand.” Furthermore it is the gospel through which they are being “saved.” The gospel of Paul saves and sustains. Yet one more time Paul emphasizes their gospel connection in the last complete line of paragraph A: “the word I preached to you” could be translated like this: “which word I gospeled to you.” Our first observation is simple: it’s all about “gospel.” Paragraph B (1 Cor. 15:3–5) elaborates Paragraph A, and it does so through one word: the word “you received” (15:1).