1 Corinthians 15:1-11 - Paul's Gospel And The Resurrection Of Christ

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.