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¹Now I declare to you, brothers, the gospel which I preached to you, which also you received, in which you also stand,

²by which also you are saved, if you hold firmly the word which I preached to you -- unless you believed in vain.

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

⁴that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures,

⁵and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve.

⁶Then he appeared to over five hundred brothers at once, most of whom remain until now, but some have also fallen asleep.

⁷Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles,

⁸and last of all, as to the child born at the wrong time, he appeared to me also.

⁹For I am the least of the apostles, who is not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the assembly of God.

¹⁰But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was bestowed on me was not found vain, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

¹¹Whether then it is I or they, so we preach, and so you believed.