I was not worthy to become an apostle, but the Lord Jesus committed to me the message about his death and resurrection.

1 Corinthians 15:1-11

15 Now, my fellow believers, I want to remind you about the message about Christ that I preached to you. It is the message that you received and that you have continued to trust firmly. 2 If you keep on firmly believing this message that I preached to you, you will be saved {God will save you}. If you do not continue to believe it, your believing in Christ was ◄all for nothing/useless►!

3 The most important part of the message that I received from the Lord Jesus, and that I told you, was this: Christ died to take away the guilt of our sins, as the Scriptures said that he would do. 4 His dead body was buried {They buried his body}. On the third day after that, God caused him to become alive again, as the Scriptures said would happen. 5 After that, Christ was seen by {appeared to} Peter. Then he appeared to eleven of the original twelve apostles. 6 Later he was seen by {appeared to} more than 500 of our fellow believers. Most of those are still living, but some of them have died [EUP]. 7 Then he was seen by {appeared to} his younger brother James, who became the leader of the congregation in Jerusalem. Then he appeared to all of the apostles. 8 Finally, he was seen by {appeared to} me, but I became an apostle in a way that was very unusual [MET]. 9 The fact is, I consider that I am the least important of the apostles. I do not deserve to be an apostle, because I ◄persecuted God’s groups of believers/caused God’s groups of believers to suffer► everywhere I went. 10 But it is because God acted kindly toward me in ways that I did not deserve that I became what I am now. And his acting kindly toward me produced a great result [LIT], which is that I worked harder for Christ than all the other apostles. But it was not that I was working with my own ability. Instead, God was helping me in a way I did not deserve. 11 So it does not matter whether it was I who was preaching or whether it was the other apostles who were preaching. We all preached the same message, and that message is what you believed.