⁶ 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.^{(A) 7} Then he appeared to James,^(B) then to all the apostles,^{(C) 8} and last of all he appeared to me also,^(D) as to one abnormally born.

⁹ For I am the least of the apostles^(E) and do not even deserve to be called an apostle, because I persecuted^(F) the church of God.^{(G) 10} But by the grace^(H) of God I am what I am, and his grace to me^(I) was not without effect. No, I worked harder than all of them^(J)—yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me.^{(K) 11} Whether, then, it is I or they,^(L) this is what we preach, and this is what you believed.