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1 Now, brothers and sisters, I want you to remember the Good News I brought to you. You received this Good News and continue strong in it.
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Now, brothers and sisters, I want to remind you of the gospel I preached to you, which you received and on which you have taken your stand.
2 And you are being saved by it if you continue believing what I told you. If you do not, then you believed for nothing.
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By this gospel you are saved, if you hold firmly to the word I preached to you. Otherwise, you have believed in vain.
3 I passed on to you what I received, of which this was most important: that Christ died for our sins, as the Scriptures say;
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For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance : that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,
4 that he was buried and was raised to life on the third day as the Scriptures say;
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that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures,
5 and that he was seen by Peter and then by the twelve apostles.
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and that he appeared to Cephas, and then to the Twelve.
6 After that, Jesus was seen by more than five hundred of the believers at the same time. Most of them are still living today, but some have died.
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After that, he appeared to more than five hundred of the brothers and sisters at the same time, most of whom are still living, though some have fallen asleep.
7 Then he was seen by James and later by all the apostles.
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Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles,
8 Last of all he was seen by me -- as by a person not born at the normal time.
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and last of all he appeared to me also, as to one abnormally born.
9 All the other apostles are greater than I am. I am not even good enough to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
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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.
10 But God's grace has made me what I am, and his grace to me was not wasted. I worked harder than all the other apostles. (But it was not I really; it was God's grace that was with me.)
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But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me was not without effect. No, I worked harder than all of them—yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me.
11 So if I preached to you or the other apostles preached to you, we all preach the same thing, and this is what you believed.
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Whether, then, it is I or they, this is what we preach, and this is what you believed.
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