1 Corinthians 15:1-5

Christ’s Resurrection

15:1 Now I want to make clear for you, ¹  brothers and sisters, ²  the gospel that I preached to you, that you received and on which you stand, 15:2 and by which you are being saved, if you hold firmly to the message I preached to you – unless you believed in vain. 15:3 For I passed on to you as of first importance ³  what I also received – that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures, 15:4 and that he was buried, and that he was raised ⁴  on the third day according to the scriptures, 15:5 and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve.

[15:1]  ¹ tn Grk “Now I make known to you.”

[15:1]  ² tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 1:10.

[15:3]  ³ tn Grk “among (the) first things.”

[15:4]  ⁴ tn Grk “he has been raised/is raised,” using a Greek tense that points to the present effect of the act of raising him. But in English idiom the temporal phrase “on the third day” requires a different translation of the verb.