Ephesians 4:9

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

and that, he went up, what is it except that he also went down first to the lower parts of the earth?

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  • John 3:13 : 13 and no one hath gone up to the heaven, except he who out of the heaven came down -- the Son of Man who is in the heaven.
  • John 6:33 : 33 for the bread of God is that which is coming down out of the heaven, and giving life to the world.'
  • Ps 63:9 : 9 And they who for desolation seek my soul, Go in to the lower parts of the earth.
  • Ps 139:15 : 15 My substance was not hid from Thee, When I was made in secret, Curiously wrought in the lower part of earth.
  • Matt 12:40 : 40 for, as Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights, so shall the Son of Man be in the heart of the earth three days and three nights.
  • Gen 11:5 : 5 And Jehovah cometh down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men have builded;
  • Exod 19:20 : 20 And Jehovah cometh down on mount Sinai, unto the top of the mount, and Jehovah calleth for Moses unto the top of the mount, and Moses goeth up.
  • Ps 8:5 : 5 And causest him to lack a little of Godhead, And with honour and majesty compassest him.
  • Prov 30:4 : 4 Who went up to heaven, and cometh down? Who hath gathered the wind in his fists? Who hath bound waters in a garment? Who established all ends of the earth? What `is' His name? and what His son's name? Surely thou knowest!
  • Isa 44:23 : 23 Sing, O heavens, for Jehovah hath wrought, Shout, O lower parts of earth, Break forth, O mountains, with singing, Forest, and every tree in it, For Jehovah hath redeemed Jacob, And in Israel He doth beautify Himself.
  • John 6:38 : 38 because I have come down out of the heaven, not that I may do my will, but the will of Him who sent me.
  • John 6:41 : 41 The Jews, therefore, were murmuring at him, because he said, `I am the bread that came down out of the heaven;'
  • John 6:51 : 51 `I am the living bread that came down out of the heaven; if any one may eat of this bread he shall live -- to the age; and the bread also that I will give is my flesh, that I will give for the life of the world.'
  • John 6:58 : 58 this is the bread that came down out of the heaven; not as your fathers did eat the manna, and died; he who is eating this bread shall live -- to the age.'
  • John 6:62 : 62 if then ye may behold the Son of Man going up where he was before?
  • John 8:14 : 14 Jesus answered and said to them, `And if I testify of myself -- my testimony is true, because I have known whence I came, and whither I go, and ye -- ye have not known whence I come, or whither I go.
  • John 16:27-28 : 27 for the Father himself doth love you, because me ye have loved, and ye have believed that I from God came forth; 28 I came forth from the Father, and have come to the world; again I leave the world, and go on unto the Father.'
  • John 20:17 : 17 Jesus saith to her, `Be not touching me, for I have not yet ascended unto my Father; and be going on to my brethren, and say to them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father, and to my God, and to your God.'
  • Acts 2:34-36 : 34 for David did not go up to the heavens, and he saith himself: The Lord saith to my lord, Sit thou at my right hand, 35 till I make thy foes thy footstool; 36 assuredly, therefore, let all the house of Israel know, that both Lord and Christ did God make him -- this Jesus whom ye did crucify.'
  • Heb 2:7 : 7 Thou didst make him some little less than messengers, with glory and honour Thou didst crown him, and didst set him over the works of Thy hands,
  • Heb 2:9 : 9 and him who was made some little less than messengers we see -- Jesus -- because of the suffering of the death, with glory and honour having been crowned, that by the grace of God for every one he might taste of death.

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    6and the righteousness of faith doth thus speak: `Thou mayest not say in thine heart, Who shall go up to the heaven,' that is, Christ to bring down?

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    7but did empty himself, the form of a servant having taken, in the likeness of men having been made,

    8and in fashion having been found as a man, he humbled himself, having become obedient unto death -- death even of a cross,

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    20which He wrought in the Christ, having raised him out of the dead, and did set `him' at His right hand in the heavenly `places',

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    16because the Lord himself, in a shout, in the voice of a chief-messenger, and in the trump of God, shall come down from heaven, and the dead in Christ shall rise first,

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    31he who from above is coming is above all; he who is from the earth, from the earth he is, and from the earth he speaketh; he who from the heaven is coming is above all.

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    33at the right hand then of God having been exalted -- also the promise of the Holy Spirit having received from the Father -- he was shedding forth this, which now ye see and hear;

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    9and to cause all to see what `is' the fellowship of the secret that hath been hid from the ages in God, who the all things did create by Jesus Christ,

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    9And these things having said -- they beholding -- he was taken up, and a cloud did receive him up from their sight;

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    1Also you -- being dead in the trespasses and the sins,

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    15having stripped the principalities and the authorities, he made a shew of them openly -- having triumphed over them in it.

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    20and through him to reconcile the all things to himself -- having made peace through the blood of his cross -- through him, whether the things upon the earth, whether the things in the heavens.

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    10be made low before the Lord, and He shall exalt you.

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    4and that he was buried, and that he hath risen on the third day, according to the Writings,

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    17and having come, he did proclaim good news -- peace to you -- the far-off and the nigh,

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