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Now I would remind you, brethren, in what terms I preached to you the gospel, which you received, in which you stand,
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by which you are saved, if you hold it fast--unless you believed in vain.
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For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the scriptures,
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that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the scriptures,
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and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve.
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Then he appeared to more than five hundred brethren at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have fallen asleep.
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Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles.
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Last of all, as to one untimely born, he appeared also to me.
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For I am the least of the apostles, unfit to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
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But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I, but the grace of God which is with me.
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Whether then it was I or they, so we preach and so you believed.
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