1 Corinthians 15:1-13 ▼

1 But let me recall to you, brethren, the Good News which I brought you, which you accepted, and on which you are standing,

2 through which also you are obtaining salvation, if you bear in mind the words in which I proclaimed it--unless indeed your faith has been unreal from the very first.

3 For I repeated to you the all-important fact which also I had been taught, that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures;

4 that He was buried; that He rose to life again on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures,

5 and was seen by Peter, and then by the Twelve.

6 Afterwards He was seen by more than five hundred brethren at once, most of whom are still alive, although some of them have now fallen asleep.

7 Afterwards He was seen by James, and then by all the Apostles.

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

9 For I am the least of the Apostles, and am not fit to be called an Apostle--because I persecuted the Church of God.

10 But what I am I am by the grace of God, and His grace bestowed upon me did not prove ineffectual. But I labored more strenuously than all the rest--yet it was not I, but God's grace working with me.

11 But whether it is I or they, this is the way we preach and the way that you came to believe.

12 But if Christ is preached as having risen from the dead, how is it that some of you say that there is no such thing as a resurrection of the dead?

13 If there is no such thing as a resurrection of the dead, then Christ Himself has not risen to life.