1 Now for the fundamental truth of my teaching, — not mine, but what I received, the same that was given to me, and that I handed on to you, —
2 the Gospel which supports you and is saving you, and will save you to the end, if your faith fail not!
3 This is the heart and soul of that Gospel as I received it and gave it to you, and the whole of it is contained in this, that according to the meaning of the Scriptures
4 the Christ died for our sins and was buried, and then according to the same truth of the Scriptures the Christ rose on the third day.
5 The witnesses of this resurrection are first Cephas, then the twelve,