2. That Good News, the message you heard from me, is God’s way to save you. But you must continue believing it. If you don’t, you believed for nothing.
3. I gave you the message that I received. I told you the most important truths: that Christ died for our sins, as the Scriptures say;
4. that he was buried and was raised to life on the third day, as the Scriptures say;
5. and that he appeared to Peter and then to the twelve apostles.
6. After that Christ appeared to more than 500 other believers at the same time. Most of them are still living today, but some have died.
7. Then he appeared to James and later to all the apostles.
8. Last of all, he appeared to me. I was different, like a baby born before the normal time.
9. All the other apostles are greater than I am. I say this because I persecuted the church of God. That is why I am not even good enough to be called an apostle.
10. But, because of God’s grace, that is what I am. And his grace that he gave me was not wasted. I worked harder than all the other apostles. (But I was not really the one working. It was God’s grace that was with me.)