1. Now I declare to you, brothers, the Good News which I preached to you, which also you received, in which you also stand,
2. by which also you are saved, if you hold firmly the word which I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.
3. For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Messiah died for our sins according to the Scriptures,
4. that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures,
5. and that he appeared to Kefa, then to the twelve.
6. Then he appeared to over five hundred brothers at once, most of whom remain until now, but some have also fallen asleep.
7. Then he appeared to Jacob, then to all the emissaries,
8. and last of all, as to the child born at the wrong time, he appeared to me also.
9. For I am the least of the emissaries, who is not worthy to be called an emissary, because I persecuted the assembly of God.
10. But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was given to me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
11. Whether then it is I or they, so we proclaim, and so you believed.
12. Now if Messiah is preached, that he has been raised from the dead, how do some amongst you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?
13. But if there is no resurrection of the dead, neither has Messiah been raised.
14. If Messiah has not been raised, then our proclaiming is in vain, and your faith also is in vain.