1. Now I make known to you, brothers and sisters, the Good News which I proclaimed to you. You also received it, and you took your stand on it,
2. and by it you are being saved if you hold firm to the word I proclaimed to you—unless you believed without proper consideration.
3. For I also passed on to you first of all what I also received— that Messiah 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 Kefa, then to the Twelve.
6. Then He appeared to over five hundred brothers and sisters at one time— most of them are still alive, though some have died.
7. Then He appeared to Jacob, then to all the emissaries,
8. and last of all, as to one untimely born, He also appeared to me.
9. For I am the least of the emissaries, unworthy to be called an emissary because I persecuted God’s community.
10. But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace toward me was not in vain. No, I worked harder than them all—yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me.
11. Whether then it is I or they, so we proclaim, and so you believed.
12. Now if Messiah is proclaimed—that He has been raised from the dead—how can some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?
13. But if there is no resurrection of the dead, not even Messiah has been raised!
14. And if Messiah has not been raised, then our proclaiming is meaningless and your faith also is meaningless.
15. Moreover, we are found to be false witnesses of God, because we testified about God that He raised up Messiah—whom He did not raise up, if in fact the dead are not raised.