A Pattern of Self-Denial

9 Am ^(A)I not an apostle? Am I not free? ^(B)Have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? ^(C)Are you not my work in the Lord?

⁴ and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day ^(A)according to the Scriptures, ^5 (B)and that He was seen by ^[a]Cephas, then ^(C)by the twelve. ⁶ After that He was seen by over five hundred brethren at once, of whom the greater part remain to the present, but some have ^[b]fallen asleep. ⁷ After that He was seen by James, then ^(D)by all the apostles. ^8 (E)Then last of all He was seen by me also, as by one born out of due time.

⁹ For I am ^(F)the least of the apostles, who am not worthy to be called an apostle, because ^(G)I persecuted the church of God. ¹⁰ But ^(H)by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all, ^(I)yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me. ¹¹ Therefore, whether it was I or they, so we preach and so you believed.