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Resurrection of the Dead

Let me remind you, brothers and sisters, of the Good News I preached to you— a message you received and on which you stand firm.

By that gospel, you are saved, provided that you hold to it as I preached. Otherwise, your faith has been in vain.

In the first place, I passed on to you what I myself received: that Christ died for our sins, as Scripture says;

that he was buried; that he was raised on the third day, in accordance with the Scriptures;

that he appeared to Cephas and then to the Twelve.

Afterward, he appeared to over five hundred brothers and sisters at once; most of them are still alive, although some have fallen asleep.

Then he appeared to James, and afterward to all the apostles.

And last of all, he appeared to me,

the least of the apostles, who am not even worthy to be called an apostle because I persecuted the church of God.

But by God’s grace, I am what I am, and his grace toward me has not been in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than all of them—yet not I, but the grace of God that is with me.

Now, whether it was they or I, this we preach and this you have believed.