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

Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to visit Cephas and get information from him, and I stayed with him fifteen days.

He did this by predestining us to adoption as his sons through Jesus Christ, according to the pleasure of his will –

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

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

But practicing the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into Christ, who is the head.

if indeed you heard about him and were taught in him, just as the truth is in Jesus.

For it has been granted to you not only to believe in Christ but also to suffer for him,

since you are encountering the same conflict that you saw me face and now hear that I am facing.

As a result God exalted him and gave him the name that is above every name,

and have been clothed with the new man that is being renewed in knowledge according to the image of the one who created it.

Now regarding the arrival of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered to be with him, we ask you, brothers and sisters,

and he reasoned that God could even raise him from the dead, and in a sense he received him back from there.

My brothers and sisters, if anyone among you wanders from the truth and someone turns him back,

Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping? Who are you looking for?” Because she thought he was the gardener, she said to him, “Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will take him.”

But John tried to prevent him, saying, “I need to be baptized by you, and yet you come to me?”

So Jesus replied to him, “Let it happen now, for it is right for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then John yielded to him.

Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their grandeur.

People do not light a lamp and put it under a basket but on a lampstand, and it gives light to all in the house.

Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.