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.

 Through his death Jesus emancipated men from their bondage to slavery and death; but through his Resurrection he gives them a life which is as glorious and indestructible as his own. Through this triumphant Resurrection we have faith and hope in God ( 1 Peter 1:21). 