8. Last of all, he appeared to me. I was different, like a baby born before the normal time.
9. All the other apostles are greater than I am. I say this because I persecuted the church of God. That is why I am not even good enough to be called an apostle.
10. But, because of God’s grace, that is what I am. And his grace that he gave me was not wasted. I worked harder than all the other apostles. (But I was not really the one working. It was God’s grace that was with me.)
11. So then it is not important if I told you God’s message or if it was the other apostles who told you—we all tell people the same message, and this is what you believed.
12. We tell everyone that Christ was raised from death. So why do some of you say that people will not be raised from death?
13. If no one will ever be raised from death, then Christ has never been raised.
14. And if Christ has never been raised, then the message we tell is worth nothing. And your faith is worth nothing.