1 Corinthians 15:1-11 - Paul's Gospel And The Resurrection Of Christ

¹ Now brothers and sisters, let me remind you [once again] of the good news [of salvation] which I preached to you, which you welcomed and accepted and on which you stand [by faith]. ² By this faith you are saved [reborn from above—spiritually transformed, renewed, and set apart for His purpose], if you hold firmly to the word which I preached to you, unless you believed in vain [just superficially and without complete commitment]. ³ For I passed on to you as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to [that which] the Scriptures [foretold], ⁴ and that He was buried, and that He was [bodily] raised on the third day according to [that which] the Scriptures [foretold], ⁵ and that He appeared to Cephas (Peter), then to the Twelve. ⁶ After that He appeared to more than five hundred brothers and sisters at one time, the majority of whom are still alive, but some have fallen asleep [in death]. ⁷ Then He was seen by James, then by all the apostles, ⁸ and last of all, as to one untimely (prematurely, traumatically) born, He appeared to me also.

⁹ For I am the least [worthy] of the apostles, and not fit to be called an apostle, because I [at one time] fiercely oppressed and violently persecuted the church of God. ¹⁰ But by the [remarkable] grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not without effect. In fact, I worked harder than all of the apostles, though it was not I, but the grace of God [His unmerited favor and blessing which was] with me. ¹¹ So whether it was I or they, this is what we preach, and this is what you believed and trusted in and relied on with confidence.