NOW, BROTHERS, I want to remind you of the GOSPEL I PREACHED to you, which YOU RECEIVED and on which YOU have taken YOUR STAND. By this GOSPEL YOU are SAVED, If YOU HOLD FIRMLY to the WORD I PREACHED TO YOU. Otherwise, YOU have BELIEVED IN VAIN.
For what I RECEIVED I PASSED on to YOU as of FIRST IMPORTANCE: that CHRIST DIED for OUR SINS ACCORDING to the SCRIPTURES, that CHRIST was BURIED, that CHRIST was RAISED on the THIRD DAY ACCORDING to the SCRIPTURES, and that CHRIST APPEARED TO PETER, and then to the TWELVE. After that, CHRIST APPEARED to more than FIVE HUNDRED of the BROTHERS at the SAME TIME, most of whom are STILL LIVING, though some have FALLEN ASLEEP. Then CHRIST APPEARED to JAMES, then to ALL the APOSTLES, and last of all CHRIST APPEARED to ME also, as to ONE ABNORMALLY BORN.
For I am the LEAST of the APOSTLES and do not even DESERVE to be CALLED an APOSTLE, BECAUSE I PERSECUTED the CHURCH OF GOD. But by the GRACE OF GOD I am what I am, and GOD'S GRACE TO ME was NOT WITHOUT EFFECT. AMEN!
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