1. Now, brothers, I declare to you the gospel which I preached to you, which you have received, and in which you stand.
2. Through it you are saved, if you keep in memory what I preached to you, unless you have believed in vain.
3. For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: how Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,
4. was buried, rose again the third day according to the Scriptures,
5. and was seen by Cephas, and then by the twelve.
6. Then He was seen by over five hundred brothers at once, of whom the greater part remain to this present time, though some have passed away.
7. Then He was seen by James and then by all the apostles.
8. Last of all, He was seen by me also, as by one born at the wrong time.
9. For I am the least of the apostles and am not fit 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 toward me was not in vain. I labored more abundantly than all of them, yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.