1. Now for the fundamental truth of my teaching, — not mine, but what I received, the same that was given to me, and that I handed on to you, —
10. But the grace of God pierced even down to those depths where I lay, and made me such as I am, and abode with me, in my labours, labours exceeding those of all the others; for the grace of God has worked with me in an extraordinary manner in every way, not only in my first conversion from the lowest depths of opposition to God but in my subsequent labours.
11. This then is the gist and burden of the message, I care not who it be that preaches it, whether I or they.
12. Then what means this contention amongst some of you that the dead do not rise?
13-16. But the Christ did rise. For death came through Adam, it came through a man, and through a man must come eternal life. If in Adam all die, then must death be conquered where it began, in a man. So rose the Christ from the dead. But if you say there is no resurrection from the dead, then neither did the Christ rise from the dead, and the whole of our teaching collapses,