¹⁵ You killed the author of life, but God raised him from the dead.^(A) We are witnesses^(B) of this.

⁵ and from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness,^(A) the firstborn from the dead,^(B) and the ruler of the kings of the earth.^(C)

To him who loves us^(D) and has freed us from our sins by his blood,^(E)