Galatians 1:8-9 KJV, "But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. {9} As we said before, so say I now again, If any /man/ preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed."
So, what gospel did the apostles preach? Is it in a few words? so we don't need to memorize all of John or Matthew or Mark or Luke? We actually don't need to memorize an entire Book of the Bible! We don't need to depend on a Bible-scholar like he were a priestly intermediary between God & man. We don't need to become an expert at making a web of crossreferences through the Bible. Instead it's so simple that there is a spot in the Holy Bible where it __basically__ says, "I'm about to tell you the gospel," has a brief description of that Glad News after the word "which", and then begins the _definition_ of the great Glad News after the words "how that". All of which, i believe is self-explanatory, but perhaps worth bringing attention to.
Finding the ending felt tricky. Please read 1st Corinthians 15 yourself, and therefore "Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth." — 2nd Timothy 2:15 KJV. My pic or tract here has two endings: where the bold ends, and where the tract ends. In verse 11, because of its phrase, "so we preach", made it seem so much like a kind of reverse of verse 1, which has the phrase, "which i preached". Nonetheless, verse 11 is after verses about the least apostle. Is apostle Paul inserting a "by the way" type statement into this delivery of the gospel? Or is he actually part of the gospel? To answer, please consider 1st Timothy 1:15-16 KJV, "This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief. {16} Howbeit for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might shew forth all longsuffering, for a pattern to them which should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting."
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