1 Corinthians 15:1-13 ▼

1 Now brothers, I want to clarify for you the gospel I proclaimed to you; you received it and have taken your stand on it.

2 You are also saved by it, if you hold to the message I proclaimed to you—unless you believed for no purpose.

3 For I passed on to you as most important what I also received: that Christ 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 Cephas, then to the Twelve.

6 Then He appeared to over 500 brothers at one time; most of them are still alive, but some have fallen asleep.

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

8 Last of all, as to one abnormally born, He also appeared to me.

9 For I am the least of the apostles, unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

10 But by God’s grace I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not ineffective. However, I worked more than any of them, yet not I, but God’s grace that was with me.

11 Therefore, whether it is I or they, so we proclaim and so you have believed.

12 Now if Christ is proclaimed as raised from the dead, how can some of you say, “There is no resurrection of the dead|?

13 But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ has not been raised;