1 Corinthians 15:11

11 Whether, then, it is I or they, this is what we preach, and this is what you believed.

1 Corinthians 15:11 in Other Translations

11 Therefore whether it were I or they, so we preach, and so ye believed.

11 Whether then it was I or they, so we preach and so you believed.

11 So it makes no difference whether I preach or they preach, for we all preach the same message you have already believed.

11 So whether you heard it from me or from those others, it's all the same: We spoke God's truth and you entrusted your lives.

11 Therefore, whether it is I or they, so we preach and so you have believed.

1 Corinthians 15:11 Meaning and Commentary

1 Corinthians 15:11

Therefore whether it were I or they
By whom Christ was seen first or last, we were all eyewitnesses of him; or whether I am the least, and others the chief of the apostles; or whether I have laboured more abundantly than they all, this matters not:

so we preach;
we agree in our ministry to preach Christ, and him only, and with one heart and mouth assert, that he died, was buried, and rose again the third day:

and so ye believed;
these several truths relating to the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ. Thus the apostle, after he had made a digression upon his own character, as one of the witnesses of Christ's resurrection, returns to the subject he set out upon in the beginning of the chapter, in order to lead on to the doctrine of the resurrection of the dead, which he proves by the resurrection of Christ, in the following verses. One of Stephen's copies read, "so we believed"; and so the Ethiopic version seems to have read; see ( 2 Corinthians 4:13 ) .

1 Corinthians 15:11 In-Context

9 For I am the least of the apostles and do not even deserve 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 was not without effect. No, I worked harder than all of them—yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me.

11 Whether, then, it is I or they, this is what we preach, and this is what you believed.

12 But if it is preached that Christ has been raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?

13 If there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised.

Cross References

• 1. Galatians 2:6