Who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God; angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him.
Parallel translations
- WEB who is at the right hand of God, having gone into heaven, angels and authorities and powers being made subject to him.
- BSB who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, with angels, authorities, and powers subject to Him.
- NKJV who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, angels and authorities and powers having been made subject to Him.
- NASB who is at the right hand of God, having gone into heaven, after angels and authorities and powers had been subjected to Him.
- NLT Now Christ has gone to heaven. He is seated in the place of honor next to God, and all the angels and authorities and powers accept his authority.
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The risen Christ now reigns at God's right hand with every spiritual power subjected to Him. This assures believers that their Savior is sovereign over all hostile forces.
Overview
Peter completes the movement from Christ's suffering to His exaltation: He has ascended and sits in the place of supreme authority. All angels, authorities, and powers are made subject to Him, echoing Psalm 110. For suffering Christians this is great comfort, since the One they follow already rules over every power that might oppose them.
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Cross-references · 20
- Heb 9:24For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us:
- Heb 12:2Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
- Heb 10:12But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;
- Eph 1:20–21Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places,
- Mark 16:19So then after the Lord had spoken unto them, he was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God.
- Rom 8:34Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.
- Heb 8:1Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum: We have such an high priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens;
- Rom 8:38For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
- Heb 6:20Whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made an high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.
- Matt 22:44The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool?
- Mark 12:36For David himself said by the Holy Ghost, The LORD said to my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool.
- Ps 110:1The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool.
- Col 3:1If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.
- Heb 1:3Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
- Acts 1:11Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.
- 1 Cor 15:24Then 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.
- Acts 2:34–36For David is not ascended into the heavens: but he saith himself, The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand,
- Heb 1:13But to which of the angels said he at any time, Sit on my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool?
- Acts 3:21Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began.
- Luke 20:42And David himself saith in the book of Psalms, The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand,
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