who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead, and gave him glory; so that your faith and hope might be in God.

who his own self bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed.

Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God; being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit;

who is at the right hand of God, having gone into heaven, angels and authorities and powers being made subject to him.

For to this end the Good News was preached even to the dead, that they might be judged indeed as men in the flesh, but live as to God in the spirit.