He also gave him authority to execute judgment, because he is a son of man.
Parallel translations
- KJV And hath given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man.
- BSB And He has given Him authority to execute judgment, because He is the Son of Man.
- NKJV and has given Him authority to execute judgment also, because He is the Son of Man.
- NASB and He gave Him authority to execute judgment, because He is the Son of Man.
- NLT And he has given him authority to judge everyone because he is the Son of Man.
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 12
- Acts 10:42He commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that this is he who is appointed by God as the Judge of the living and the dead.
- John 5:22For the Father judges no one, but he has given all judgment to the Son,
- Acts 17:31because he has appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he has ordained; of which he has given assurance to all men, in that he has raised him from the dead.”
- Dan 7:13–14I saw in the night visions, and behold, there came with the clouds of the sky one like a son of man, and he came even to the ancient of days, and they brought him near before him.
- 1 Cor 15:25For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet.
- 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.
- Ps 110:6He will judge among the nations. He will heap up dead bodies. He will crush the ruler of the whole earth.
- Heb 2:7–9You made him a little lower than the angels. You crowned him with glory and honor.
- Eph 1:20–23which he worked in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and made him to sit at his right hand in the heavenly places,
- Phil 2:7–11but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men.
- Ps 110:1–2A Psalm by David. Yahweh says to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool for your feet.”
- Ps 2:6–9“Yet I have set my King on my holy hill of Zion.”
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