Ephesians 1:22

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

And God put all things under Christ’s feet, and gave him to the church as head over all things.

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  • Col 1:18 : 18 He is the head of the body, the church, as well as the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that he himself may become first in all things.
  • Col 2:10 : 10 and you have been filled in him, who is the head over every ruler and authority.
  • Col 2:19 : 19 He has not held fast to the head from whom the whole body, supported and knit together through its ligaments and sinews, grows with a growth that is from God.
  • Eph 5:23 : 23 because the husband is the head of the wife as also Christ is the head of the church(he himself being the savior of the body).
  • Ps 8:6-8 : 6 you appoint them to rule over your creation; you have placed everything under their authority, 7 including all the sheep and cattle, as well as the wild animals, 8 the birds in the sky, the fish in the sea and everything that moves through the currents of the seas.
  • 1 Cor 11:3 : 3 But I want you to know that Christ is the head of every man, and the man is the head of a woman, and God is the head of Christ.
  • Eph 3:21 : 21 to him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.
  • Eph 4:15-16 : 15 But practicing the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into Christ, who is the head. 16 From him the whole body grows, fitted and held together through every supporting ligament. As each one does its part, the body builds itself up in love.
  • Acts 20:28 : 28 Watch out for yourselves and for all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God that he obtained with the blood of his own Son.
  • Gen 3:15 : 15 And I will put hostility between you and the woman and between your offspring and her offspring; her offspring will attack your head, and you will attack her offspring’s heel.”
  • Ps 91:13 : 13 You will subdue a lion and a snake; you will trample underfoot a young lion and a serpent.
  • Matt 16:18 : 18 And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overpower it.
  • 1 Cor 15:25-27 : 25 For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. 26 The last enemy to be eliminated is death. 27 For he has put everything in subjection under his feet. But when it says“everything” has been put in subjection, it is clear that this does not include the one who put everything in subjection to him.
  • Col 1:8 : 8 who also told us of your love in the Spirit.
  • Heb 2:8 : 8 You put all things under his control.” For when he put all things under his control, he left nothing outside of his control. At present we do not yet see all things under his control,
  • Heb 12:22-24 : 22 But you have come to Mount Zion, the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels, to the assembly 23 and congregation of the firstborn, who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous, who have been made perfect, 24 and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks of something better than Abel’s does.

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  • 1 Cor 15:27-28
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    27For he has put everything in subjection under his feet. But when it says“everything” has been put in subjection, it is clear that this does not include the one who put everything in subjection to him.

    28And when all things are subjected to him, then the Son himself will be subjected to the one who subjected everything to him, so that God may be all in all.

  • Heb 2:7-8
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    7You made him lower than the angels for a little while. You crowned him with glory and honor.

    8You put all things under his control.” For when he put all things under his control, he left nothing outside of his control. At present we do not yet see all things under his control,

  • Eph 1:23
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    23Now the church is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.

  • Eph 1:19-21
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    19and what is the incomparable greatness of his power toward us who believe, as displayed in the exercise of his immense strength.

    20This power he exercised in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms

    21far above every rule and authority and power and dominion and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the one to come.

  • Col 1:15-20
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    15The Supremacy of Christ He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation,

    16for all things in heaven and on earth were created in him– all things, whether visible or invisible, whether thrones or dominions, whether principalities or powers– all things were created through him and for him.

    17He himself is before all things and all things are held together in him.

    18He is the head of the body, the church, as well as the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that he himself may become first in all things.

    19For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in the Son

    20and through him to reconcile all things to himself by making peace through the blood of his cross– through him, whether things on earth or things in heaven.

  • Ps 8:6
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    6you appoint them to rule over your creation; you have placed everything under their authority,

  • Eph 1:9-10
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    9He did this when he revealed to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure that he set forth in Christ,

    10toward the administration of the fullness of the times, to head up all things in Christ– the things in heaven and the things on earth.

  • 1 Cor 15:24-25
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    24Then comes the end, when he hands over the kingdom to God the Father, when he has brought to an end all rule and all authority and power.

    25For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet.

  • Eph 4:8-10
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    8Therefore it says,“When he ascended on high he captured captives; he gave gifts to men.”

    9Now what is the meaning of“he ascended,” except that he also descended to the lower regions, namely, the earth?

    10He, the very one who descended, is also the one who ascended above all the heavens, in order to fill all things.

  • Eph 5:22-24
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    22Exhortations to Households Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord,

    23because the husband is the head of the wife as also Christ is the head of the church(he himself being the savior of the body).

    24But as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.

  • Phil 2:9-11
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    9As a result God highly exalted him and gave him the name that is above every name,

    10so that at the name of Jesus every knee will bow– in heaven and on earth and under the earth–

    11and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father.

  • Eph 3:9-11
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    9and to enlighten everyone about God’s secret plan– the mystery that has been hidden for ages in God who has created all things.

    10The purpose of this enlightenment is that through the church the multifaceted wisdom of God should now be disclosed to the rulers and the authorities in the heavenly realms.

    11This was according to the eternal purpose that he accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord,

  • Col 2:9-10
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    9For in him all the fullness of deity lives in bodily form,

    10and you have been filled in him, who is the head over every ruler and authority.

  • 1 Cor 11:3
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    3But I want you to know that Christ is the head of every man, and the man is the head of a woman, and God is the head of Christ.

  • 1 Pet 3:22
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    22who went into heaven and is at the right hand of God with angels and authorities and powers subject to him.

  • Eph 4:15
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    15But practicing the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into Christ, who is the head.

  • Eph 2:6
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    6and he raised us up together with him and seated us together with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus,

  • Col 2:15
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    15Disarming the rulers and authorities, he has made a public disgrace of them, triumphing over them by the cross.

  • Eph 1:3
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    3Spiritual Blessings in Christ Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms in Christ.

  • 1 Cor 3:22-23
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    22whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future. Everything belongs to you,

    23and you belong to Christ, and Christ belongs to God.

  • Col 2:19
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    19He has not held fast to the head from whom the whole body, supported and knit together through its ligaments and sinews, grows with a growth that is from God.

  • 1 Cor 1:30
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    30He is the reason you have a relationship with Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification and redemption,

  • Eph 3:21
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    21to him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.

  • Phil 3:21
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    21who will transform these humble bodies of ours into the likeness of his glorious body by means of that power by which he is able to subject all things to himself.

  • 2 Cor 5:18
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    18And all these things are from God who reconciled us to himself through Christ, and who has given us the ministry of reconciliation.

  • Eph 4:6
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    6one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.

  • Eph 4:12
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    12to equip the saints for the work of ministry, that is, to build up the body of Christ,

  • Acts 2:35
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    35until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet.”’

  • 1 Cor 8:6
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    6yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we live, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we live.