They will face a reckoning before Jesus Christ who stands ready to judge the living and the dead.

So you too consider yourselves dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.

I solemnly charge you before God and Christ Jesus, who is going to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom:

and do not present your members to sin as instruments to be used for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who are alive from the dead and your members to God as instruments to be used for righteousness.