Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

15 Now, my brothers, I want to bring the good news to your minds again. I told it to you and you received it. You now believe it.

² You are saved by it, if you hold on to what I told you. If you do not, then you have believed for nothing.

³ I told you first what was told to me. I told you that Christ died for the wrong things we did, as the holy writings said.

⁴ He was buried. He was raised on the third day, as the holy writings said.

⁵ Peter saw him, and then all the twelve disciples saw him.

⁶ After that, more than five hundred Christian brothers saw him at one time. Most of them are still living, but some have died.

⁷ After that, James saw him. Then all the apostles saw him.

⁸ Last of all, I saw him too. I was like one who was born at the wrong time.

⁹ The other apostles are all greater than I am. I should not be called an apostle because I troubled the people of God's church.

¹⁰ But God has been kind to me. He has made me what I am today. And he did not bless me for nothing. I did more work than any of them. Yet it was not I, but the loving kindness of God was working with me.

¹¹ So it does not matter who gave the message, they or I. This is the message we gave, and this is the message you believed.