Matthew 28:18
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18 [a](A)Then Jesus approached and said to them, “All power in heaven and on earth has been given to me.
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- 28:18 All power…me: the Greek word here translated power is the same as that found in the LXX translation of Dn 7:13–14 where one “like a son of man” is given power and an everlasting kingdom by God. The risen Jesus here claims universal power, i.e., in heaven and on earth.
1 Corinthians 15:25-28
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25 For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet.(A) 26 [a]The last enemy(B) to be destroyed is death, 27 [b]for “he subjected everything under his feet.”(C) But when it says that everything has been subjected, it is clear that it excludes the one who subjected everything to him. 28 When everything is subjected to him, then the Son himself will [also] be subjected to the one who subjected everything to him, so that God may be all in all.(D)
Practical Arguments.[c]
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- 15:26 The last enemy…is death: a parenthesis that specifies the final fulfillment of the two Old Testament texts just referred to, Ps 110:1 and Ps 8:7. Death is not just one cosmic power among many, but the ultimate effect of sin in the universe (cf. 1 Cor 15:56; Rom 5:12). Christ defeats death where it prevails, in our bodies. The destruction of the last enemy is concretely the “coming to life” (1 Cor 15:22) of “those who belong to Christ” (1 Cor 15:23).
- 15:27b–28 The one who subjected everything to him: the Father is the ultimate agent in the drama, and the final end of the process, to whom the Son and everything else is ordered (24, 28). That God may be all in all: his reign is a dynamic exercise of creative power, an outpouring of life and energy through the universe, with no further resistance. This is the supremely positive meaning of “subjection”: that God may fully be God.
- 15:29–34 Paul concludes his treatment of logical inconsistencies with a listing of miscellaneous Christian practices that would be meaningless if the resurrection were not a fact.
Ephesians 1:20-23
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20 which he worked in Christ, raising him from the dead and seating him at his right hand in the heavens,(A) 21 far above every principality, authority, power, and dominion, and every name that is named not only in this age but also in the one to come.(B) 22 And he put all things beneath his feet and gave him as head over all things to the church,(C) 23 which is his body,[a] the fullness of the one who fills all things in every way.(D)
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- 1:23 His body: the church (Eph 1:22); cf. note on Col 1:18. Only in Ephesians and Colossians is Christ the head of the body, in contrast to the view in 1 Cor 12 and Rom 12:4–8 where Christ is equated with the entire body or community. Fullness: see note on Col 1:19. Some take the one who fills as God, others as Christ (cf. Eph 4:10). If in Christ “dwells the fullness of the deity bodily” (Col 2:9), then, as God “fills” Christ, Christ in turn fills the church and the believer (Eph 3:19; 5:18). But the difficult phrases here may also allow the church to be viewed as the “complement” of Christ who is “being filled” as God’s plan for the universe is carried out through the church (cf. Eph 3:9–10).
Philippians 3:21
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21 He will change our lowly body to conform with his glorified body by the power that enables him also to bring all things into subjection to himself.(A)
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1 Peter 3:22
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22 who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, with angels, authorities, and powers subject to him.(A)
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