1. Now, brothers, I want to
remind you of the gospel I preached to you, which you received and on
which you have taken your stand.
2. By this gospel you are saved, if you hold firmly to the word I preached
to you. Otherwise, you have believed in vain.
3. For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance : that
Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,
4. that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to
the Scriptures,
5. and that he appeared to Peter, and then to the Twelve.
6. After that, he appeared to more than five hundred of the brothers at
the same time, most of whom are still living, though some have fallen
asleep.
7. Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles,
8. and last of all he appeared to me also, as to one abnormally born.
9. For I am the least of the apostles and do not even deserve 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 to me was not
without effect. No, I worked harder than all of them--yet not I, but the
grace of God that was with me.