NEW TESTAMENT READING
1 Corinthians 15:1-11
15 Now I want you to understand, brothers and sisters, the good
news that I proclaimed to you, which you in turn received, in which also
you stand, 2 through which also you are being saved, if you hold firmly
to the message that I proclaimed to you—unless you have come to
believe in vain.
3 For I handed on to you as of first importance what I in turn had
received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the
scriptures 4 and that he was buried and that he was raised on the third day
in accordance with the scriptures 5 and that he appeared to Cephas, then
to the twelve. 6 Then he appeared to more than five hundred brothers and
sisters at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have
died. 7 Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles. 8 Last of all, as
to one untimely born, he appeared also to me. 9 For I am the least of the
apostles, unfit 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 toward me
has not been in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them,
though it was not I but the grace of God that is with me. 11 Whether then
it was I or they, so we proclaim and so you believed.
Reader: Word of God. Word of life.
All: Thanks be to God!