They will face a reckoning before ¹  Jesus Christ ²  who stands ready to judge the living and the dead.

Now it was for this very purpose ¹  that the gospel was preached to those who are now dead, ²  so that though ³  they were judged in the flesh ⁴  by human standards ⁵  they may live spiritually ⁶  by God’s standards. ⁷ 

Through him you now trust ¹  in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.

Blessed be ¹  the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By his great mercy he gave us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,