^{8 Ref} For if we live, we live to the Lord. Or if we die, we die to the Lord. If therefore we live or die, we are the Lord's.

^{9 Ref} For to this end Christ died, rose, and lived again, that he might be Lord of both the dead and the living.

^{10 Ref} But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you again, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.

^{11 Ref} For it is written, "'As I live,' says the Lord, 'to me every knee will bow. Every tongue will confess to God.'"

^{12 Ref} So then each one of us will give account of himself to God.