Colossians 1:18

Prayer For Maturity Based On Christ's Preeminence

¹⁷ and He is before all things, and in Him all things have held together. ¹⁸ And He is the Head of the body, the assembly; Who is the Beginning, the First-born from the dead, that in all things He may be preeminent; ¹⁹ because it was pleasing that in Him all the fulness should dwell;

All Things

Firstborn from the Dead

Head of the Body

Head of the Church

Rise from the Dead

Ephesians 1:22-23

and He put all things in subjection under His feet, and gave Him as Head over all things to the assembly,

Revelation 1:5

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful Witness, the First-born of the dead, and the Ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him Who loveth, and loosed us from our sins in His own blood,

Acts 26:23

that the Christ was destined to suffer; that He, first out of a resurrection of the dead, is destined to declare light both to the people and to the gentiles."

John 3:29-31

He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bride-groom who stands and hears him greatly rejoices because of the bridegroom's voice: this my joy, therefore, has been made full.

1 Corinthians 11:3

But I wish you to know that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the wife is the husband, and the head of Christ is God.

Ephesians 4:15-16

but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him, Who is the Head, Christ;

Ephesians 5:23

because a husband is head of the wife, as Christ also is Head of the assembly; Himself the Savior of the body.

Revelation 3:14

"And to the angel of the assembly in Laodicea write these things," saith the Amen, the Faithful and the True Witness, the Beginning of the creation of God:

Revelation 5:9-13

And they sing a new song, saying, "Worthy art Thou to take the book, and to open its seals; because Thou wast slain, and didst redeem to God, by Thy blood, some of every tribe, and tongue, and people, and nation;

Revelation 11:15

And the seventh angel sounded; and there followed great voices in Heaven, saying, "The kingdom of the world became our Lord's and His Christ's; and He will reign forever and ever."

Matthew 23:8

But be not ye called Rabbi; for One is your Teacher, and all ye are brethren.

Matthew 28:18

And Jesus, coming near, spake to them, saying, "All authority was given to Me in Heaven and on earth:

John 1:1

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

John 1:16

because out of His fulness we all received, and grace for grace:

John 3:34-35

For He Whom God sent speaketh the words of God; for He giveth not the Spirit by measure.

John 11:25-26

Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life; he that believes on Me, though he die, yet shall he live;

Romans 8:29

because whom He foreknew He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the first born among many brethren.

1 Corinthians 15:20-23

But now hath Christ been raised from the dead, the First fruit of those who have fallen asleep.

1 Corinthians 15:25

for He must reign, till He hath put all the enemies under His feet.

Ephesians 1:10

for a dispensation of the fulness of the seasons, to sum up all things in Christ, the things in the heavens and the things on the earth; in Him,

Colossians 1:24

Now I rejoice in my sufferings in your behalf, and fill up in turn the deficiencies of the tribulations of Christ in my flesh for the sake of His body, which is the assembly;

Colossians 2:10-14

and ye have been made complete in Him, Who is the Head of all principality and power;

Hebrews 1:5-6

For to whom of the angels said He at any time, "You are My Son; I this day have begotten you?" And again, "I will be to him a Father; and He shall be to me a Son?"

1 John 1:1

That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we gazed upon, and our hands handled, concerning the Word of Life

Revelation 1:8

"I am the Alpha and the Omega," saith the Lord God, Who is, and Who was, and Who is coming, the Almighty.

Revelation 1:18

and the Living One; and I was dead; and, behold, I am alive forevermore; and I have the keys of death and of Hades.

Revelation 21:6

And He said to me, "It has come to pass. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give to him that thirsted of the fountain of the water of life freely.

Revelation 21:23-24

And the city has no need of the sun, nor of the moon, to shine upon it; for the glory of God illuminated it, and its lamp is the Lamb.

Revelation 22:13

I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.