1Now 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,
2By 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.
3For 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;
4And 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;