Therefore whether it were I or they, so we preach, and so ye believed.
Whether it was Paul or the other apostles who preached made no difference, for the message proclaimed was the same resurrection and the response it met was the same belief among the early Christians. This unity of preaching and believing shows that the rising of the dead was not a side point but a central teaching of the gospel. The truth of the resurrection is therefore to stir believers to diligence in life. It is also to move them to obedience and to fill them with cheerfulness.
Whether it was Paul or the other apostles who preached made no difference, for the message proclaimed was the same resurrection and the response it met was the same belief among the early Christians. This unity of preaching and believing shows that the rising of the dead was not a side point but a central teaching of the gospel. The truth of the resurrection is therefore to stir believers to diligence in life. It is also to move them to obedience and to fill them with cheerfulness.