Colossians 1:17

Prayer For Maturity Based On Christ's Preeminence

¹⁶ For all things were created in Him, the things in the heavens, and the things on the earth, the visible and the invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers, all things were created through Him and for Him. ¹⁷ And He is before all things, and by Him all things consist. ¹⁸ And He is the Head of the body, the church, who is the Beginning, the First-born from the dead, that He may be pre-eminent in all things.

All Things

Created Through Him

John 8:58

Jesus said to them, Truly, truly, I say to you, Before Abraham came into being, I AM!

1 Corinthians 8:6

but there is to us only one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in Him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we by Him.

Hebrews 1:3

who being the shining splendor of His glory, and the express image of His essence, and upholding all things by the word of His power, through Himself cleansing of our sins, He sat down on the right of the Majesty on high,

Revelation 1:8

I am the Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the Ending, says the Lord, who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.

Revelation 1:17

And when I saw Him, I fell at His feet as dead. And He laid His right hand upon me, saying to me, Do not fear, I am the First and the Last,

1 Samuel 2:8

He raises up the poor out of the dust; He lifts up the needy from the dunghill to set them among princes; yea, He causes them to inherit a throne of honor; for to Jehovah are the pillars of the earth; and He sets the habitable world on them.

Psalm 75:3

The earth and all its people are melting away; I hold up its pillars. Selah.

Proverbs 8:22-23

Jehovah possessed me from the beginning of His way, before His works of old.

Isaiah 43:11-13

I, I am Jehovah; and there is none to save besides Me.

Isaiah 44:6

So says Jehovah, the King of Israel, and His redeemer Jehovah of Hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and besides Me there is no God.

Micah 5:2

And you, Bethlehem Ephratah, you being least among the thousands of Judah, out of you He shall come forth to Me, to become Ruler in Israel, He whose goings forth have been from of old, from the days of eternity.

John 1:1-3

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

John 5:17-18

But Jesus answered them, My Father works until now, and I work.

John 17:5

And now Father, glorify Me with Yourself with the glory which I had with You before the world was.

Acts 17:28

For in Him we live and move and have our being, as also certain of your own poets have said, For we are also His offspring.

Colossians 1:15

who is the image of the invisible God, the First-born of all creation.

Hebrews 13:8

Jesus Christ the same yesterday and today and forever.

Revelation 1:11

saying, I am the Alpha and Omega, the First and the Last. Also, What you see, write in a book and send it to the seven churches which are in Asia: to Ephesus, and to Smyrna, and to Pergamos, and to Thyatira, and to Sardis, and to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.

Revelation 2:8

And to the angel of the church in Smyrna write: The First and the Last, who became dead and lived, says these things: