Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power.
Parallel translations
- WEB Then the end comes, when he will deliver up the Kingdom to God, even the Father; when he will have abolished all rule and all authority and power.
- BSB Then the end will come, when He hands over the kingdom to God the Father after He has destroyed all dominion, authority, and power.
- NKJV Then comes the end, when He delivers the kingdom to God the Father, when He puts an end to all rule and all authority and power.
- NASB then comes the end, when He hands over the kingdom to our God and Father, when He has abolished all rule and all authority and power.
- NLT After that the end will come, when he will turn the Kingdom over to God the Father, having destroyed every ruler and authority and power.
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Then comes the end, when Christ hands the Kingdom to the Father, having abolished all hostile powers. It matters because it points to the final triumph of God's reign.
Overview
Paul looks to the consummation when Christ, having conquered every opposing rule and authority, delivers the Kingdom to the Father. This is not a demotion of the Son but the completion of His redemptive mission. The verse assures believers that Christ's reign will end in the total victory of God's purposes.
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Cross-references · 18
- Dan 7:27And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him.
- Dan 7:14And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.
- Matt 28:18And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.
- Isa 9:7Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.
- Matt 11:27All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him.
- John 13:3Jesus knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he was come from God, and went to God;
- Dan 2:44And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.
- 1 Tim 6:15Which in his times he shall shew, who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords;
- John 3:35The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand.
- Matt 24:13But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
- Luke 10:22All things are delivered to me of my Father: and no man knoweth who the Son is, but the Father; and who the Father is, but the Son, and he to whom the Son will reveal him.
- Matt 10:22And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.
- Dan 12:13But go thou thy way till the end be: for thou shalt rest, and stand in thy lot at the end of the days.
- Dan 12:9And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end.
- 1 Pet 4:7But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.
- Dan 12:4But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.
- Rom 8:38For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
- Matt 13:39–40The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels.
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