1 Corinthians 15:1-13 ▼

1 MOREOVER, my brethren, I declare to you the gospel which I preached to you, and which you have accepted, and for which you have stood firm;

2 By which also you are saved if you keep in remembrance that very word which I have preached to you, and if your conversion has not been in vain.

3 For I delivered to you first of all that which I had also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;

4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again on the third day according to the scriptures:

5 And that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve:

6 After that, he appeared to more than five hundred brethren at once; of whom a great many are still living though some are dead.

7 And after that, he appeared to James; then to all the apostles.

8 And last of all he appeared to me also, ignorant and imperfectly developed as I was.

9 For I am the least of the apostles, and I am not worthy 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 that is in me has not been in vain; for I labored more abundantly than them all: yet not I, but God’s grace that is within me.

11 Therefore whether it were I or they, so we preached and so you believed.

12 Now if it is preached that Christ rose from the dead, how can some say among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?

13 And if there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ also has not risen: