Philippians 2:11
And that every tongue should confess qthat Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
καὶ πᾶσα γλῶσσα ἐξομολογήσηται ὅτι Κύριος Ἰησοῦς Χριστός, εἰς δόξαν Θεοῦ πατρός.
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John 13:13 Ye call me Master and Lord: and ye say well; for so I am.
Psalms 110:4 The LORD hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.
Romans 14:9 For to this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that he might be Lord both of the dead and living.
Romans 14:11 For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.
1 Corinthians 8:6 But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.
1 Corinthians 12:3 Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed: and that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost.
By tongue, not only every language, people, and nation is meant; because it is to be understood, as before particularized, of angels as well as men, for though angels properly, and by nature, want tongues, (as well as knees, which are both here joined, and must not be severed, in the worship given to Christ), yet in their manner of speaking to men, under an extraordinary dispensation, they may use them, (or that which is equivalent), 1Co 13:1; and, in a way proper to them, can
or express, their adoration of Christ, Rev 7:9-12, either with delight, or by a forced subjection, Rev 6:16, and acknowledge that he is Lord, i.e. of glory, Rom 11:36 1Co 2:8 8:6, the Son of God, 2Co 4:5 Heb 1:2,4, having only power to command the soul and conscience, Jas 4:12, and to save, Heb 7:27, being Lord both of the dead and of the living, Rom 14:9.
some render, in the glory of the Father. Either in that the honour of Christ redoundeth to the honour of the Father, Pro 10:1, with Joh 5:23 Eph 1:6: or the Father doth most glorify the Son in his exaltation, who had most glorified him in his humiliation, Joh 12:28, with Joh 17:5,6.