Colossians 1:17

Prayer For Maturity Based On Christ's Preeminence

¹⁶ because in him were the all things created, those in the heavens, and those upon the earth, those visible, and those invisible, whether thrones, whether lordships, whether principalities, whether authorities; all things through him, and for him, have been created, ¹⁷ and himself is before all, and the all things in him have consisted. ¹⁸ And himself is the head of the body -- the assembly -- who is a beginning, a first-born out of the dead, that he might become in all things -- himself -- first,

All Things

Created Through Him

John 8:58

Jesus said to them, 'Verily, verily, I say to you, Before Abraham's coming -- I am;'

1 Corinthians 8:6

yet to us is one God, the Father, of whom are the all things, and we to Him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are the all things, and we through Him;

Hebrews 1:3

who being the brightness of the glory, and the impress of His subsistence, bearing up also the all things by the saying of his might -- through himself having made a cleansing of our sins, sat down at the right hand of the greatness in the highest,

Revelation 1:8

I am the Alpha and the Omega, beginning and end, saith the Lord, who is, and who was, and who is coming -- the Almighty.'

Revelation 1:17

And when I saw him, I did fall at his feet as dead, and he placed his right hand upon me, saying to me, 'Be not afraid; I am the First and the Last,

1 Samuel 2:8

He raiseth from the dust the poor, From a dunghill He lifteth up the needy, To cause them to sit with nobles, Yea, a throne of honour He doth cause them to inherit, For to Jehovah are the fixtures of earth, And He setteth on them the habitable world.

Psalm 75:3

Melted is the earth and all its inhabitants, I -- I have pondered its pillars. Selah.

Proverbs 8:22-23

Jehovah possessed me -- the beginning of His way, Before His works since then.

Isaiah 43:11-13

I -- I am Jehovah, And besides Me there is no saviour.

Isaiah 44:6

Thus said Jehovah, king of Israel, And his Redeemer, Jehovah of Hosts: 'I am the first, and I the last, And besides Me there is no God.

Micah 5:2

And thou, Beth-Lehem Ephratah, Little to be among the chiefs of Judah! From thee to Me he cometh forth -- to be ruler in Israel, And his comings forth are of old, From the days of antiquity.

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

And Jesus answered them, 'My Father till now doth work, and I work;'

John 17:5

'And now, glorify me, Thou Father, with Thyself, with the glory that I had before the world was, with Thee;

Acts 17:28

for in Him we live, and move, and are; as also certain of your poets have said: For of Him also we are offspring.

Colossians 1:15

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

Hebrews 13:8

Jesus Christ yesterday and to-day the same, and to the ages;

Revelation 1:11

I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last;' and, 'What thou dost see, write in a scroll, and send to the seven assemblies that 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 messenger of the assembly of the Smyrneans write: These things saith the First and the Last, who did become dead and did live;