who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, angels and authorities and powers having been made subject to 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.
- KJV Who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God; angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him.
- BSB who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, with angels, authorities, and powers 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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- Heb 9:24For Christ hasn’t entered into holy places made with hands, which are representations of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us;
- Heb 12:2looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
- Heb 10:12but he, when he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of God;
- Eph 1:20–21which he worked in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and made him to sit at his right hand in the heavenly places,
- Mark 16:19So then the Lord, after he had spoken to them, was received up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God.
- Rom 8:34Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, yes rather, who was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.
- Heb 8:1Now in the things which we are saying, the main point is this. We have such a high priest, who sat down 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 things present, nor things to come, nor powers,
- Heb 6:20where as a forerunner Jesus entered for us, having become a high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.
- Matt 22:44‘The Lord said to my Lord, sit on my right hand, until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet?’
- Mark 12:36For David himself said in the Holy Spirit, ‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies the footstool of your feet.”’
- Ps 110:1A Psalm by David. Yahweh says to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool for your feet.”
- Col 3:1If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God.
- Heb 1:3His Son is the radiance of his glory, the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purified us of our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
- Acts 1:11who also said, “You men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into the sky? This Jesus, who was received up from you into the sky, will come back in the same way as you saw him going into the sky.”
- 1 Cor 15:24Then 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.
- Acts 2:34–36For David didn’t ascend into the heavens, but he says himself, ‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit by my right hand,
- 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?”
- Acts 3:21whom heaven must receive until the times of restoration of all things, which God spoke long ago by the mouth of his holy prophets.
- Luke 20:42David himself says in the book of Psalms, ‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand,
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