Ephesians 1:22
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“And God put everything under His feet and made Him head over everything for the church,”
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“And God put everything under His feet and made Him head over everything for the church,”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church,”
King James Version · Public Domain“and he put all things in subjection under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things to the church,”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“and all things He did put under his feet, and did give him--head over all things to the assembly,”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Ephesians 1:22 — 17 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 3:15And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed. He will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.”
- Psalms 8:6You made him ruler of the works of Your hands; You have placed everything under his feet:
- Psalms 91:13You will tread on the lion and cobra; you will trample the young lion and serpent.
- Matthew 16:18And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.
- Acts 20:28Keep watch over yourselves and the entire flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be shepherds of the church of God, which He purchased with His own blood.
- 1 Corinthians 11:3But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.
- 1 Corinthians 15:25For He must reign until He has put all His enemies under His feet.
- Ephesians 3:21to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen.
- Ephesians 4:15Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into Christ Himself, who is the head.
- Ephesians 5:23For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, His body, of which He is the Savior.
- Colossians 1:8and who also informed us of your love in the Spirit.
- Colossians 1:18And He is the head of the body, the church; He is the beginning and firstborn from among the dead, so that in all things He may have preeminence.
- Colossians 2:10And you have been made complete in Christ, who is the head over every ruler and authority.
- Colossians 2:19He has lost connection to the head, from whom the whole body, supported and knit together by its joints and ligaments, grows as God causes it to grow.
- 1 Timothy 3:15in case I am delayed, so that you will know how each one must conduct himself in God’s household, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth.
- Hebrews 2:8and placed everything under his feet.” When God subjected all things to him, He left nothing outside of his control. Yet at present we do not see everything subject to him.
- Hebrews 12:22Instead, you have come to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem. You have come to myriads of angels
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