8 and last of all, as to one untimely born, He also appeared to me.
9 For I am the least of the emissaries, unworthy to be called an emissary because I persecuted God’s community.
10 But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace toward me was not in vain. No, I worked harder than them all—yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me.
11 Whether then it is I or they, so we proclaim, and so you believed.
12 Now if Messiah is proclaimed—that He has been raised from the dead—how can some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?
13 But if there is no resurrection of the dead, not even Messiah has been raised!
14 And if Messiah has not been raised, then our proclaiming is meaningless and your faith also is meaningless.