1 Peter 3:22
New International Version
who has gone into heaven and is at God’s right hand—with angels, authorities and powers in submission to him.

New Living Translation
Now Christ has gone to heaven. He is seated in the place of honor next to God, and all the angels and authorities and powers accept his authority.

English Standard Version
who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, with angels, authorities, and powers having been subjected to him.

Berean Standard Bible
who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, with angels, authorities, and powers subject to Him.

Berean Literal Bible
who is at the right hand of God, having gone into heaven, angels and authorities and powers having been subjected to Him.

King James Bible
Who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God; angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him.

New King James Version
who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, angels and authorities and powers having been made subject to Him.

New American Standard Bible
who is at the right hand of God, having gone into heaven, after angels and authorities and powers had been subjected to Him.

NASB 1995
who is at the right hand of God, having gone into heaven, after angels and authorities and powers had been subjected to Him.

NASB 1977
who is at the right hand of God, having gone into heaven, after angels and authorities and powers had been subjected to Him.

Legacy Standard Bible
who is at the right hand of God, having gone into heaven, after angels and authorities and powers had been subjected to Him.

Amplified Bible
who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God [that is, the place of honor and authority], with [all] angels and authorities and powers made subservient to Him.

Christian Standard Bible
who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God with angels, authorities, and powers subject to him.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Now that He has gone into heaven, He is at God’s right hand with angels, authorities, and powers subject to Him.

American Standard Version
who is on the right hand of God, having gone into heaven; angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
He who has been escorted into Heaven, and he is upon the right hand of God, and the Angels and the Principalities and the Powers are subjected unto him.

Contemporary English Version
Christ is now in heaven, where he sits at the right side of God. All angels, authorities, and powers are under his control.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Who is on the right hand of God, swallowing down death, that we might be made heirs of life everlasting: being gone into heaven, the angels and powers and virtues being made subject to him.

English Revised Version
who is on the right hand of God, having gone into heaven; angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Christ has gone to heaven where he has the highest position that God gives. Angels, rulers, and powers have been placed under his authority.

Good News Translation
who has gone to heaven and is at the right side of God, ruling over all angels and heavenly authorities and powers.

International Standard Version
who has gone to heaven and is at the right hand of God, where angels, authorities, and powers have been made subject to him.

Literal Standard Version
who is at the right hand of God, having gone on to Heaven—messengers, and authorities, and powers, having been subjected to Him.

Majority Standard Bible
who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, with angels, authorities, and powers subject to Him.

New American Bible
who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, with angels, authorities, and powers subject to him.

NET Bible
who went into heaven and is at the right hand of God with angels and authorities and powers subject to him.

New Revised Standard Version
who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, with angels, authorities, and powers made subject to him.

New Heart English Bible
who is at the right hand of God, having gone into heaven, angels and authorities and powers being made subject to him.

Webster's Bible Translation
Who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God; angels, and authorities, and powers being made subject to him.

Weymouth New Testament
who is at God's right hand, having gone into Heaven, angels and authorities and powers having been made subject to Him.

World English Bible
who is at the right hand of God, having gone into heaven, angels and authorities and powers being made subject to him.

Young's Literal Translation
who is at the right hand of God, having gone on to heaven -- messengers, and authorities, and powers, having been subjected to him.

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Context
Suffering for Righteousness
21And this water symbolizes the baptism that now saves you also—not the removal of dirt from the body, but the pledge of a clear conscience toward God—through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, 22who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, with angels, authorities, and powers subject to Him.

Cross References
Matthew 28:18
Then Jesus came to them and said, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to Me.

Mark 16:19
After the Lord Jesus had spoken to them, He was taken up into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God.

Romans 8:38
For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor principalities, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers,

Hebrews 1:6
And again, when God brings His firstborn into the world, He says: "Let all God's angels worship Him."

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 firmly to what we profess.

Hebrews 6:20
where Jesus our forerunner has entered on our behalf. He has become a high priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.


Treasury of Scripture

Who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God; angels and authorities and powers being made subject to him.

is gone.

Mark 16:19
So then after the Lord had spoken unto them, he was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God.

Acts 1:11
Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.

Acts 2:34-36
For David is not ascended into the heavens: but he saith himself, The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, …

is on.

Psalm 110:1
A Psalm of David. The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool.

Matthew 22:44
The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool?

Mark 12:36
For David himself said by the Holy Ghost, The LORD said to my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool.

angels.

Romans 8:38
For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,

1 Corinthians 15:24
Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power.

Ephesians 1:21
Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come:

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1. He teaches the duty of wives and husbands to each other;
8. exhorting all men to unity and love;
14. and to suffer persecution.
19. He declares also the benefits of Christ toward the old world.














(22) Who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God.--This verse (which partakes of the character of a doxology) serves two purposes. First, it carries on the history of Jesus Christ. How carefully, in spite of what seem at first irrelevant digressions, St. Peter holds his threads. Christ's passion and death, activity among the dead, resurrection from among them, ascension into heaven, perpetual session in glory, follow one another in due order. The second purpose of the clause runs parallel to the first. St. Peter is teaching the entire conformity of the believer to the Lord. If the believer will but retain his good conscience, he may hope for a precisely similar experience. The Latin and several other good versions, together with several Latin Fathers, add a curious sentence after the words "on the right hand of God," which runs: swallowing up death, that we might be made heirs of eternal life; but there is no sufficient authority for the sentence. The first notion of being "on the right hand of God," taken, probably, from Psalm 110:1, seems to be that of occupying the highest post of honour possible, next after that of God--i.e., the Father--Himself It is not necessary here to consider what else may be implied in the phrase as to the conditions of our Lord's human existence; but when we compare St. Paul's statement, in Ephesians 4:10, about His now "filling all things," we feel that these pictorial words, such as "heaven" and "right hand of God," are intended to convey the notion that His humanity is now entirely without conditions, though still retaining all that is truly essential to humanity. It may be observed that, assuming (as even most sceptical critics do) the genuineness of this Epistle, we have here at first hand the deliberate evidence of one who had been perfectly familiar with Jesus Christ as man with man. By what stretch of imagination can we suppose that such a person could ever have invented, or have accepted from others this mode of speaking about his former Teacher, had he not been conscious of the resurrection and ascension of Jesus as simply historical facts, of the same order as the fact of His death?

Angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him.--There can be no doubt that this whole verse is coloured by recollection of the circular letter which St. Paul had sent to the Churches of Asia, which we call the Epistle to the Ephesians. Perhaps the heresy which St. Paul lamented in that Epistle may still have lingered in existence, in cabalistic Jewish circles, among those same Churches when St. Peter thus wrote to them. He may, for the moment, be glancing away from his faint-hearted Hebrew brethren, who, in fear of persecution, were slinking back into Judaism, and turning rather to those Gnosticising Jews who began to abound in Asia, who made "genealogies" of aeons, and gave Christ a place among them. In favour of such an opinion one might appeal to the vivid picture of licentiousness in the next chapter, and the development of the same, manifestly under Gnostic influence, in the Second Epistle and in the Apocalypse. From the expression "being made subject," or, literally, having been subdued (or, subjected) "we may infer that St. Peter meant evil spirits, this being a crowning triumph of Christ, and not only a mark of His exaltation. We need not think that St. Peter, any more than St. Paul, is distinctly teaching that there are such grades of spiritual beings; he is probably only borrowing the titles from the heretics glanced at, and saying that, whatever unseen powers there are, whatever they may be called, they are now cubdued to Christ.

Verse 22. - Who is gone into heaven. The word here rendered "gone" is that used in ver. 19, "he went and preached (πορευθείς)" (comp. Ephesians 4:9, "Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth?"). And is on the right hand of God (comp. Psalm 110:1; Romans 8:34; Colossians 3:1; Ephesians 1:20; Hebrews 1:3). It is better to suffer for well-doing than for evil-doing, for he who is the signal Example, who suffered, the Just for the unjust, is now exalted to the right hand of the Majesty on high; and "is able to save them to the uttermost that come to God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them." Angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him. God "hath set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places, far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come." All the angels of God, in the various grades of the heavenly hierarchy, are made subject to Christ. The words seem to include, especially when read in comparison with Colossians 2:15, the evil angels also; they are made subject against their will to Christ; they asked him once if he was come to torment them before the time. He can restrain their malice and save his people from their power.



Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
who
ὅς (hos)
Personal / Relative Pronoun - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 3739: Who, which, what, that.

has gone
πορευθεὶς (poreutheis)
Verb - Aorist Participle Passive - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 4198: To travel, journey, go, die.

into
εἰς (eis)
Preposition
Strong's 1519: A primary preposition; to or into, of place, time, or purpose; also in adverbial phrases.

heaven
οὐρανόν (ouranon)
Noun - Accusative Masculine Singular
Strong's 3772: Perhaps from the same as oros; the sky; by extension, heaven; by implication, happiness, power, eternity; specially, the Gospel.

[and] is
ἐστιν (estin)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 1510: I am, exist. The first person singular present indicative; a prolonged form of a primary and defective verb; I exist.

at
ἐν (en)
Preposition
Strong's 1722: In, on, among. A primary preposition denoting position, and instrumentality, i.e. A relation of rest; 'in, ' at, on, by, etc.

[the] right hand
δεξιᾷ (dexia)
Adjective - Dative Feminine Singular
Strong's 1188: On the right hand, right hand, right. From dechomai; the right side or hand.

of God,
Θεοῦ (Theou)
Noun - Genitive Masculine Singular
Strong's 2316: A deity, especially the supreme Divinity; figuratively, a magistrate; by Hebraism, very.

[with] angels,
ἀγγέλων (angelōn)
Noun - Genitive Masculine Plural
Strong's 32: From aggello; a messenger; especially an 'angel'; by implication, a pastor.

authorities,
ἐξουσιῶν (exousiōn)
Noun - Genitive Feminine Plural
Strong's 1849: From exesti; privilege, i.e. force, capacity, competency, freedom, or mastery, delegated influence.

and
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

powers
δυνάμεων (dynameōn)
Noun - Genitive Feminine Plural
Strong's 1411: From dunamai; force; specially, miraculous power.

subject
ὑποταγέντων (hypotagentōn)
Verb - Aorist Participle Passive - Genitive Masculine Plural
Strong's 5293: From hupo and tasso; to subordinate; reflexively, to obey.

to Him.
αὐτῷ (autō)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Dative Masculine 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.


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