And, by your union with him, you also are filled with it. He is the Head of all Archangels and Powers of Heaven.
Then Jesus came up, and spoke to them thus: "All authority in heaven and on the earth has been given to me.
Out of his fullness we have all received some gift, gift after gift of love;
Then will come the end-when he surrenders the Kingdom to his God and Father, having overthrown all other rule and all other authority and power.
So that now to the Archangels and to all the Powers on high should be made known, through the Church, the all-embracing wisdom of God,
And to understand--though it surpasses all understanding--the love of the Christ; and so be filled to the full with God himself.
He rid himself of all the Powers of Evil, and held them up to open contempt, when he celebrated his triumph over them on the cross!
In that new life there is no distinction between Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, freeman; but Christ is all!--and in all!
and, being made perfect, he became to all those who obey him the source of eternal Salvation,
who has gone into Heaven, and is at God's right hand, where Angels and Archangels and the Powers of Heaven now yield submission to him.