and you have been filled in him, who is the head over every ruler and authority.
Then Jesus came up and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.
For we have all received from his fullness one gracious gift after another.
Then 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.
The 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.
and thus to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, so that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God.
Disarming the rulers and authorities, he has made a public disgrace of them, triumphing over them by the cross.
Here there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave or free, but Christ is all and in all.
And by being perfected in this way, he became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey him,
who went into heaven and is at the right hand of God with angels and authorities and powers subject to him.