⁸ For if we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. So then, ^(A)whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord's. ⁹ For to this end Christ ^(B)died and lived again, that he might be Lord both ^(C)of the dead and of the living.

Born Again to a Living Hope

^3 (A)Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! ^(B)According to his great mercy, ^(C)he has caused us to be born again to a living hope ^(D)through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,