8 for you know that whatever good each one does, he will receive this back from Jehovah,*+ whether he is a slave or a freeman.

3 Praised be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, for according to his great mercy he gave us a new birth+ to a living hope+ through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,+ 4 to an incorruptible and undefiled and unfading inheritance.+ It is reserved in the heavens for you,+