1. Now I want to make clear for you, brothers and sisters, the gospel that I preached to you, that you received and on which you stand,
2. and by which you are being saved, if you hold firmly to the message I preached to you — unless you believed in vain.
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 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 of the brothers and sisters at one time,
   most of whom are still alive, though some have fallen asleep.
7. Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles.

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