1. Moreover, brothers, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received and in which ye stand;
2. by which also ye are being saved if ye retain the word that I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.
3. For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received: how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures
4. and that he was buried and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures
5. and that he appeared to Cephas and then to the twelve;
6. after that, he appeared unto more than five hundred brothers at once, of whom the greater part remain unto now, but some are fallen asleep.
7. After that, he appeared unto James; then to all the apostles.
8. And last of all he appeared unto me also, as of one born out of due time.
9. For I am the least of the apostles, for I am not worthy to be called an apostle because I persecuted the congregation {Gr. ekklesia – called out ones} of God.
10. But by the grace of God I am what I am; and his grace towards me was not in vain, for I laboured more abundantly than they all, yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
11. Therefore, whether it were I or they, so we preach, and so ye believed.
12. Now if the Christ is preached that rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?
13. But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then neither is Christ risen;