8. For if we live, we live for the Lord; and if we die, we die for the Lord. So whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord.
9. For this reason Messiah died and lived again, so that He might be Lord of both the dead and the living.
10. But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you too, why do you look down on your brother? For we all will stand before the judgment seat of God.
11. For it is written, “As I live, says Adonai, every knee shall bow to Me, and every tongue shall give praise to God.”
12. So then each one of us shall give account of himself to God.