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.
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.
- KJV 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.
- 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.
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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 7:27The kingdom and the dominion, and the greatness of the kingdoms under the whole sky, shall be given to the people of the saints of the Most High: his kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him.
- Dan 7:14There was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all the peoples, 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 28:18Jesus came to them and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.
- Isa 9:7Of the increase of his government and of peace there shall be no end, on David’s throne, and on his kingdom, to establish it, and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from that time on, even forever. The zeal of Yahweh of Armies will perform this.
- Matt 11:27All things have been delivered to me by my Father. No one knows the Son, except the Father; neither does anyone know the Father, except the Son, and he to whom the Son desires to reveal him.
- John 13:3Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he came from God, and was going to God,
- Dan 2:44In the days of those kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed, nor shall its sovereignty be left to another people; but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever.
- 1 Tim 6:15which in its own times he will show, who is the blessed and only Ruler, the King of kings, and Lord of lords;
- John 3:35The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into his hand.
- Matt 24:13But he who endures to the end, the same will be saved.
- Luke 10:22Turning to the disciples, he said, “All things have been delivered to me by my Father. No one knows who the Son is, except the Father, and who the Father is, except the Son, and he to whomever the Son desires to reveal him.”
- Matt 10:22You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved.
- Dan 12:13But go you your way until the end; for you shall rest, and shall stand in your lot, at the end of the days.
- Dan 12:9He said, Go your way, Daniel; for the words are shut up and sealed until the time of the end.
- 1 Pet 4:7But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.
- Dan 12:4But you, Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run back and forth, and knowledge shall be increased.”
- Rom 8:38For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,
- Matt 13:39–40The enemy who sowed them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are angels.
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