1. Now I make known to you, brothers, the gospel which I proclaimed to you, which you have also received, in which you also stand,
2. by which you are also being saved, if you hold fast to the message I proclaimed to you, unless you believed to no purpose.
3. For I passed on to you as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures,
4. and that he was buried, and that he was raised up on the third day according to the scriptures,
5. and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve,
6. then he appeared to more than five hundred brothers at once, the majority of whom remain until now, but some have fallen asleep.