Colossians 1:16

Prayer For Maturity Based On Christ's Preeminence

¹⁵ Christ is the visible representation of the invisible God, the Firstborn and Lord of all creation. ¹⁶ For in Him was created the universe of things in heaven and on earth, things seen and things unseen, thrones, dominions, princedoms, powers--all were created, and exist through and for Him. ¹⁷ And HE IS before all things and in and through Him the universe is a harmonious whole.

All Things

By Him All Things Were Created

God Created

Heaven and Earth

On Earth

By Him All Things Were Created

Created Through Him

Romans 11:36

For the universe owes its origin to Him, was created by Him, and has its aim and purpose in Him. To Him be the glory throughout the Ages! Amen.

Ephesians 1:10

for the government of the world when the times are ripe for it--the purpose which He has cherished in His own mind of restoring the whole creation to find its one Head in Christ; yes, things in Heaven and things on earth, to find their one Head in Him.

John 1:3

All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing that exists came into being.

1 Corinthians 8:6

yet *we* have but one God, the Father, who is the source of all things and for whose service we exist, and but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom we and all things exist.

Ephesians 6:12

For ours is not a conflict with mere flesh and blood, but with the despotisms, the empires, the forces that control and govern this dark world--the spiritual hosts of evil arrayed against us in the heavenly warfare.

Colossians 2:10

and He is the Lord of all princes and rulers.

Colossians 2:15

And the hostile princes and rulers He shook off from Himself, and boldly displayed them as His conquests, when by the Cross He triumphed over them.

Hebrews 1:2

has at the end of these days spoken to us through a Son, who is the pre-destined Lord of the universe, and through whom He made the Ages.

Hebrews 2:10

For it was fitting that He for whom, and through whom, all things exist, after He had brought many sons to glory, should perfect by suffering the Prince Leader who had saved them.

Romans 8:38

For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither the lower ranks of evil angels nor the higher, neither things present nor things future, nor the forces of nature,

Ephesians 1:20-21

when He displayed it in Christ by raising Him from the dead and seating Him at His own right hand in the heavenly realms,

Ephesians 3:9-10

and to show all men in a clear light what my stewardship is. It is the stewardship of the truth which from all the Ages lay concealed in the mind of God, the Creator of all things--

Philippians 2:10

in order that in the Name of JESUS every knee should bow, of beings in Heaven, of those on the earth, and of those in the underworld,

Colossians 1:15

Christ is the visible representation of the invisible God, the Firstborn and Lord of all creation.

Colossians 1:20

And God purposed through Him to reconcile the universe to Himself, making peace through His blood, which was shed upon the Cross--to reconcile to Himself through Him, I say, things on earth and things in Heaven.

Hebrews 1:10-12

It is also of His Son that God says, "Thou, O Lord, in the beginning didst lay the foundations of the earth, and the heavens are the work of Thy hands.

Hebrews 3:3-4

For Jesus has been counted worthy of greater glory than Moses, in so far as he who has built a house has higher honour than the house itself.

1 Peter 3:22

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

Revelation 5:13-14

And as for every created thing in Heaven and on earth and under the earth and on the sea, and everything that was in any of these, I heard them say, "To Him who is seated on the throne, And to the Lamb, Be ascribed all blessing and honor And glory and might, Until the Ages of the Ages!"