2. And you are saved by this Good News. But you must continue believing what I told you. If you do not, then you believed for nothing.
3. I passed on to you what I received. And this was the most important: that Christ died for our sins, as the Scriptures say;
4. that he was buried and was raised to life on the third day as the Scriptures say;
5. and that he showed himself to Peter and then to the twelve apostles.
6. After that, Jesus showed himself to more than 500 of the believers at the same time. Most of them are still living today. But some have died.
7. Then Jesus showed himself to James and later to all the apostles.
8. Last of all he showed himself to me—as to a person not born at the normal time.
9. All the other apostles are greater than I am. This is because I persecuted the church of God. And this is why I am not even good enough to be called an apostle.
10. But God’s grace has made me what I am. And his grace to me was not wasted. I worked harder than all the other apostles. (But I was not really the one working. It was God’s grace that was with me.)
11. So then it is not important if I preached to you or if the other apostles preached to you. We all preach the same thing, and this is what you believed.