For “He has put all things under His feet.” But when He says “all things are put under Him,” it is evident that He who put all things under Him is excepted.
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- WEB For, “He put all things in subjection under his feet.” But when he says, “All things are put in subjection”, it is evident that he is excepted who subjected all things to him.
- KJV For he hath put all things under his feet. But when he saith all things are put under him, it is manifest that he is excepted, which did put all things under him.
- BSB For “God has put everything under His feet.” Now when it says that everything has been put under Him, this clearly does not include the One who put everything under Him.
- NASB For He has put all things in subjection under His feet. But when He says, “All things are put in subjection,” it is clear that this excludes the Father who put all things in subjection to Him.
- NLT For the Scriptures say, “God has put all things under his authority.” (Of course, when it says “all things are under his authority,” that does not include God himself, who gave Christ his authority.)
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God has put all things under Christ's feet, with God Himself clearly excepted. It matters because it shows the scope and ordering of Christ's authority.
Overview
Citing Psalm 8, Paul affirms that all things are subjected to Christ, while clarifying that the Father who does the subjecting is not Himself included. This careful distinction preserves the proper relationship within the Godhead. Christ's universal authority is real, yet it is given by and exercised toward the glory of the Father.
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- Ps 8:6You make him ruler over the works of your hands. You have put all things under his feet:
- Heb 2:8You have put all things in subjection under his feet.” For in that he subjected all things to him, he left nothing that is not subject to him. But now we don’t see all things subjected to him, yet.
- Matt 28:18Jesus came to them and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.
- 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.
- Eph 1:22He put all things in subjection under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things for the assembly,
- 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,
- John 3:35The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into his hand.
- 1 Pet 3:22who is at the right hand of God, having gone into heaven, angels and authorities and powers being made subject to him.
- Phil 2:9–11Therefore God also highly exalted him, and gave to him the name which is above every name;
- Rev 1:18and the Living one. I was dead, and behold, I am alive forever more. Amen. I have the keys of Death and of Hades.
- Heb 1:13But which of the angels has he told at any time, “Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies the footstool of your feet?”
- Heb 10:12but he, when he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of God;
- Eph 1:20which he worked in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and made him to sit at his right hand in the heavenly places,
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