Psalm 68:18

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Summary

Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity captive: thou hast received gifts for men; yea, for the rebellious also, that the LORD God might dwell among them.

Ascended

Received

For men

Rebellious

Titus 3:3

Bible References

Ascended

OMITTED TEXT

And it came to pass, while He was blessing them, He departed from them, and was carried up into heaven.

from the day on which, having given commandment through the Holy Ghost to the apostles whom He had chosen, He was received up.

Therefore he says, Having ascended upon high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts to the people.

Therefore having a great high priest, having entered into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast the testimony.

whither Jesus the forerunner has entered in our behalf, having been made a high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.

But in addition to the things which having been spoken this is the principal thing: We have such a high priest, who sat on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in heaven,

who is on the right hand of God, having gone up into heaven; angels and authorities and powers being subordinated unto him.

Received

And I send the promise of the Father upon you: and you tarry in the city, until you may be endued with power from on high.

And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Comforter, that He may be with you always,

But now I tell you the truth; it is profitable to you that I may go away. For if I go not away, the Comforter will not come to you; but if I may go, I will send Him to you.

and being assembled together with them, He commanded them, Not to depart from Jerusalem, but to await the promise of the Father which ye heard from me;

and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.

Therefore he says, Having ascended upon high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts to the people.

For men

As indeed it has been written; The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last man Adam, a life-creating spirit.

and himself is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the first begotten from the dead, in order that in all things himself may be preeminent:

in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

who being the brightness of his glory, and the character of his person, and holding up all things by the word of his power, having made purgation of the sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;

Rebellious

But having gone, learned what this is, I wish mercy and not sacrifice: for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

and repentance unto remission of sins is to be preached in His name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem.

Him by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, having been delivered, you having nailed up, slew through the hand of lawless men;

And Ananias departed, and came into the house: and putting his hands on him said, Brother Saul, the Lord, Jesus, that appeared to you in the way in which thou didst come, hath sent me, that thou mayest look up, and he filled with the Holy Ghost.

Do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? He not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor catamites, nor Sodomites,

being antecedently a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and an insulter: but I obtained mercy, because I did it in unbelief being ignorant;

For when we also were without understanding, being disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in sin and envy, hateful, hating one another;