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For this reason the Messiah[a] died and returned to life, so that he might become the Lord of both the dead and the living.

10 Why, then, do you criticize your brother? Or why do you despise your brother? For all of us will stand before the judgment seat of God.[b] 11 For it is written,

“As certainly as I live, declares the Lord,[c]
    every knee will bow to me,
        and every tongue will praise[d] God.”[e]

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 14:9 Or Christ
  2. Romans 14:10 Other mss. read of the Messiah
  3. Romans 14:11 MT source citation reads Lord
  4. Romans 14:11 Or confess
  5. Romans 14:11 Cf. Isa 49:18; 45:23