Of First Importance — 1 Corinthians 15:3-4

For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures. — Paul puts the gospel into one sentence and calls it the load-bearing beam. Remove it and everything else collapses — including the ethics we love to major on.