1 Corinthians 15:1-13 ▼

1 What I have explain'd to you, my brethren, is the gospel which I preached to you, which you have received, and wherein you have persisted:

2 by which also you will be saved, if you so retain it as I preached it to you, unless you have believed without sufficient grounds.

3 I acquainted you chiefly with what I received myself, that Christ died for our sins, as the scriptures foretold:

4 that he was buried, and rose again the third day, as the scriptures foretold:

5 that he was seen by Cephas, then by the twelve:

6 after that, he was seen by above five hundred brethren at once: of whom the greater part remain alive to this day, but some are now dead.

7 after that he was seen by James; then by all the apostles.

8 and last of all, he was seen by me too, who am as it were an abortive;

9 for I am the meanest of the apostles, not worthy the name of an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

10 it is by the divine favour that I am what I am: and his favour to me was not in vain; no, I laboured more than they all: yet it was not I, it was the divine favour which assisted me.

11 but whether I or they labour'd most, this is what we preach, and this is what you believed.

12 Now if it has been declared, that Christ rose from the dead, how comes it, that some among you assert, "there is no resurrection of the dead?"

13 for if there be no resurrection of the dead, then Christ is not risen.