1 Corinthians 15:1-13 ▼

1 Now I make known to you⁺, brothers, the gospel that I proclaimed to you⁺, which also you⁺ received, in which you⁺ also stand,

2 by which you⁺ are also being saved in what word I proclaimed to you⁺, if you⁺ hold fast—unless you⁺ believed in vain.

3 For I delivered to you⁺ as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,

4 and that He was buried, and that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures,

5 and that He appeared to Cephas, then to the Twelve.

6 Afterward, He appeared to over five hundred brothers at once, the greater part of whom remain until now, but some have fallen asleep.

7 Afterward, He appeared to James, then to all the apostles.

8 And last of all, as to one of untimely birth, He appeared also to me.

9 For I am the least of the apostles, who am not sufficient 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 empty. But I toiled more abundantly than all of them, yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me.

11 Whether, then, I or they, thus we preach, and thus you⁺ believed.

12 Now if Christ is preached, that He has been raised out from the dead, how do some among you⁺ say that there is no resurrection of the dead?

13 But if there is no resurrection of the dead, neither has Christ been raised.