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Even better references to me are in Philippians 2:5-11, which states that Christ Jesus is equal with God, and that every knee shall bow to the name of Jesus, "and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father."
The second and third part both parallel Isaiah 45:22-23, which says "Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else.
I have sworn by myself, the word is gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and shall not return, That unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear."
Additionally, Isaiah 9:6 links the Son with many of the titles of God.
Colossians 2:2 explicitly mentions the doctrine itself of the trinity, when it says, "to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ;" Unfortunately many modern versions entirely remove the words "and of the Father," from this sentence or change it to "mystery of God the Father, and of Christ," even though in the Greek there are two "ands" there, meaning three Persons.
If you combine Colossians 2:2 with John 10:30, ("I and my Father are one.") you see pretty clearly how 1 John 5:7 is an arrival at or combination of everything here. Of course, few people would rely on this to argue against the Sabellians in the 3rd century, because that sect was already misinterpreting John 10:30, and 1 John 5:7 essentially says the same thing.
Luke 24:52-53 states that Jesus was worshipped in one verse and then equates that, making it equivalent to worshipping God in the next verse. John 1:1-3, tells us about how, In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God, which is equated with Christ throughout the New Testament and particularly in John 1:14, the same passage.
Several passages mention all three Persons in the Trinity as unmistakeably not the same person, such as - John 14:26, John 15:26, John 16:13-15. Luke in Luke 7:13 flat out states that Jesus is "the Lord," as it says there, "And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her, and said unto her, Weep not." And of course, the same term "Lord" is used everywhere in the New Testament as an equivalent translation to the divine name, whenever anyone quoted the Old Testament somewhere.
In Luke's version of the triumphal entry again, it says, "And if any man ask you, Why do ye loose him? thus shall ye say unto him, Because the Lord hath need of him."
Galatians 1:1 contrasts Jesus Christ with men, as it says: "Paul, an apostle, (not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead;)"
The same thing is said of the Spirit, see 2 Cor. 3:17, "Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty."
Luke directly says that God shed 'his own blood.' In Acts 20:28, it says, "Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood."
In Romans 14:10-12 it says,
>"But why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.
>For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.
>So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God."
As we see here, "the judgment seat of Christ" in Romans 14:10 is equivalent to "God" in Romans 14:12. However all modern versions change Romans 14:10 to say God.
Other direct statements of the divinity of Christ Jesus the Son would be in, Hebrews 1:8 (KJV), Colossians 1:17, Colossians 2:9, 1 Tim. 3:16 (KJV). Both "God" and "Jesus Christ" are called our Savior successively in Titus 1:3-4. And again also in Titus 3:4-6. In 1 John 5:9, it is stated that one either believes on the Son of God, or else does not believe God, those being the only two options. We could get into even more triadic declarations in the book of Revelation if we needed to at this point. And this is without even getting into parallel passages.