And the God of peace will crush Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.
Parallel translations
- WEB And the God of peace will quickly crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
- KJV And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.
- BSB The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
- NASB The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus be with you.
- NLT The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. May the grace of our Lord Jesus be with you.
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Quick answer
Paul promises that the God of peace will soon crush Satan under the believers' feet, then prays for the grace of the Lord Jesus to be with them. It assures Christians of certain victory over evil through God's grace.
Overview
Echoing the first promise of redemption in Genesis 3:15, that the serpent's head would be crushed, Paul applies that triumph to the church, who share in Christ's victory. The 'God of peace' will defeat the great divider, fittingly tied to the warning against those sowing discord. Paul's closing blessing grounds this hope not in the believers' strength but in the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, through whom Satan is already and finally defeated.
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- Luke 10:19Behold, I give you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy. Nothing will in any way hurt you.
- 1 Jn 3:8He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. To this end the Son of God was revealed: that he might destroy the works of the devil.
- Gen 3:15I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel.”
- Zech 10:5They shall be as mighty men, treading down muddy streets in the battle; and they shall fight, because Yahweh is with them; and the riders on horses will be confounded.
- Mal 4:3You shall tread down the wicked; for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I make,” says Yahweh of Armies.
- Rev 12:10I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, “Now the salvation, the power, and the Kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ has come; for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accuses them before our God day and night.
- Heb 2:14–15Since then the children have shared in flesh and blood, he also himself in the same way partook of the same, that through death he might bring to nothing him who had the power of death, that is, the devil,
- Rev 22:21The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with all the saints. Amen.
- Rom 15:33Now the God of peace be with you all. Amen.
- 1 Th 5:28The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.
- Rom 8:37No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
- Phil 4:23The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.
- Rev 20:1–3I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand.
- 2 Cor 13:14The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, God’s love, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be with you all. Amen.
- 2 Th 3:18The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.
- Gal 6:18The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, brothers. Amen.
- Isa 25:8–12He has swallowed up death forever! The Lord Yahweh will wipe away tears from off all faces. He will take the reproach of his people away from off all the earth, for Yahweh has spoken it.
- 2 Tim 4:22The Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Grace be with you. Amen.
- 1 Cor 16:23The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
- Phlm 1:25The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen.
- Job 40:12Look at everyone who is proud, and humble him. Crush the wicked in their place.
- Isa 63:3“I have trodden the wine press alone; and of the peoples, no one was with me: Yes, I trod them in my anger, and trampled them in my wrath. Their lifeblood is sprinkled on my garments, and I have stained all my clothing.
- 1 Cor 16:2–4On the first day of the week, let each one of you save, as he may prosper, that no collections be made when I come.
- Rom 16:23Gaius, my host and host of the whole assembly, greets you. Erastus, the treasurer of the city, greets you, as does Quartus, the brother.
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