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God’s favor [a] has been given to each of us. It was measured out to us by Christ who gave it. That’s why the Scriptures say:

“When he went to the highest place,
he took captive those who had captured us
and gave gifts to people.”

Now what does it mean that he went up except that he also had gone down to the lowest parts of the earth?

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Footnotes

  1. 4:7 Or “grace.”

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