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Now I am going to make clear to you, my brothers, what the good news was which I gave to you, and which you took, and on which your faith is based,

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By which you have salvation that is to say, the form in which it was given to you, if it is fixed in your minds, and if your faith in it is not without effect.

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For I gave to you first of all what was handed down to me, how Christ underwent death for our sins, as it says in the Writings

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And he was put in the place of the dead and on the third day he came back from the dead, as it says in the Writings

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And he was seen by Cephas then by the twelve

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Then by more than five hundred brothers at the same time, most of whom are still living, but some are sleeping

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Then he was seen by James then by all the Apostles.

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And last of all, as by one whose birth was out of the right time, he was seen by me.

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For I am the least of the Apostles, having no right to be named an Apostle, because of my cruel attacks on the church of God.

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But by the grace of God, I am what I am: and his grace which was given to me has not been for nothing for I did more work than all of them though not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

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If then it is I who am the preacher, or they, this is our word, and to this you have given your faith.