Six ways to encounter God here
A passage is not only to be understood; it is to be lived with. Choose how you want to meet God in Ephesians 4:9, and Living Bread opens it right there.
Read itSit with the words themselves in The Word.Study itContext, cross-references, and questions in Bible Study.Be still in itLet it quiet you in the Sanctuary.Pray itTurn it into a prayer of your own.Hide it in your heartMemorize it, word by word.Encounter it togetherGather a few people to walk through it.
The web of Scripture around it
Where this passage echoes across the Bible, from the cross-reference graph, 12 connected Scriptures. Each one is a door to meet God there too.
- John 3:13
And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.
- Matthew 12:40
For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
- Proverbs 30:4
Who hath ascended up into heaven, or descended? who hath gathered the wind in his fists? who hath bound the waters in a garment? who hath established …
- John 6:33
For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world.
- Psalms 63:9
But those that seek my soul, to destroy it, shall go into the lower parts of the earth.
- John 6:38
For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.
- John 6:41
The Jews then murmured at him, because he said, I am the bread which came down from heaven.
- Psalms 139:15
My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
- John 6:62
What and if ye shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was before?
- John 16:27
For the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God.
- Genesis 11:5
And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
- Hebrews 2:9
But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God s…
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How it points to Christ
Every Scripture ultimately leads to Jesus. See how the whole Bible points to Him in Christ in all Scripture, then meet Him for yourself.