9. For I am the least of the apostles, not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
10. But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me has not been in vain, but I labored even more than all of them, and not I, but the grace of God with me.
11. Therefore whether I or those, in this way we preached, and in this way you believed.
12. Now if Christ is preached as raised up from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?
13. But if there is no resurrection of the dead, Christ has not been raised either.
14. But if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain, and your faith is in vain.
15. And also we are found to be false witnesses of God, because we testified against God that he raised Christ, whom he did not raise if after all, then, the dead are not raised.
16. For if the dead are not raised, Christ has not been raised either.
17. But if Christ has not been raised, your faith is empty; you are still in your sins.