Ephesians 4:10

Gifted Leaders Bring The Church To Maturity

⁹ But what does “He ascended” mean except that He descended to the lower parts of the earth? ¹⁰ The One who descended is also the One who ascended far above all the heavens, that He might fill all things. ¹¹ And He personally gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some pastors and teachers,

All Things

Christ

Hebrews 4:14

Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens—Jesus the Son of God—let us hold fast to the confession.

Hebrews 7:26

For this is the kind of high priest we need: holy, innocent, undefiled, separated from sinners, and exalted above the heavens.

Matthew 24:34

I assure you: This generation will certainly not pass away until all these things take place.

Luke 24:44

Then He told them, “These are My words that I spoke to you while I was still with you—that everything written about Me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets, and the Psalms must be fulfilled.”

John 1:16

Indeed, we have all received grace after grace
from His fullness,

John 19:24

So they said to one another, “Let’s not tear it, but cast lots for it, to see who gets it.” They did this to fulfill the Scripture that says: They divided My clothes among themselves, and they cast lots for My clothing. And this is what the soldiers did.

John 19:28

After this, when Jesus knew that everything was now accomplished that the Scripture might be fulfilled, He said, “I’m thirsty!”

John 19:36

For these things happened so that the Scripture would be fulfilled: Not one of His bones will be broken.

Acts 1:9

After He had said this, He was taken up as they were watching, and a cloud took Him out of their sight.

Acts 1:11

They said, “Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking up into heaven? This Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come in the same way that you have seen Him going into heaven.”

Acts 2:33

Therefore, since He has been exalted to the right hand of God and has received from the Father the promised Holy Spirit, He has poured out what you both see and hear.

Acts 3:18

But what God predicted through the mouth of all the prophets—that His Messiah would suffer—He has fulfilled in this way.

Acts 13:32-33

And we ourselves proclaim to you the good news of the promise that was made to our ancestors.

Romans 9:25-30

As He also says in Hosea:

I will call Not My People, My People,
and she who is Unloved, Beloved.

Romans 15:9-13

and so that Gentiles may glorify God for His mercy. As it is written:

Therefore I will praise You among the Gentiles,
and I will sing psalms to Your name.

Romans 16:25-26

Now to Him who has power to strengthen you according to my gospel and the proclamation about Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery kept silent for long ages

Ephesians 1:20-23

He demonstrated this power in the Messiah by raising Him from the dead and seating Him at His right hand in the heavens—

Ephesians 3:19

and to know the Messiah’s love that surpasses knowledge, so you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

Colossians 1:19

For God was pleased to have
all His fullness dwell in Him,

Colossians 2:9

For the entire fullness of God’s nature dwells bodily in Christ,

1 Timothy 3:16

And most certainly, the mystery of godliness is great:

He was manifested in the flesh,
vindicated in the Spirit,
seen by angels,
preached among the nations,
believed on in the world,
taken up in glory.

Hebrews 8:1

Now the main point of what is being said is this: We have this kind of high priest, who sat down at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens,

Hebrews 9:23-24

Therefore it was necessary for the copies of the things in the heavens to be purified with these sacrifices, but the heavenly things themselves to be purified with better sacrifices than these.