Colossians 1:15

Prayer For Maturity Based On Christ's Preeminence

¹⁴ And through whom we have found deliverance in the forgiveness of our sins. ¹⁵ For Christ is the very incarnation of the invisible God-- First-born and Head of all creation; ¹⁶ For in him was created all that is in Heaven and on earth, the visible and the invisible--Angels and Archangels and all the Powers of Heaven.

All Things

Before God

Firstborn Over All Creation

God Made

On Earth

Firstborn Of Every Creature

Christ

John 1:14

And the Word became Man, and dwelt among us, (We saw his glory--the glory of the Only Son sent from the Father), full of love and truth.

2 Corinthians 4:4

Men whose minds have been blinded by the God of this Age, unbelievers as they are, so that the light from the Good News of the glory of the Christ, who is the very incarnation of God, should not shine for them.

Hebrews 1:3

For he is the radiance of the Glory of God and the very expression of his Being, upholding all creation by the power of his word; and, when he had made an expiation for the sins of men, he 'took his seat at the right hand' of God's Majesty on high,

John 1:1

In the Beginning the Word was; and the Word was with God; and the Word was God.

John 1:18

No man has ever yet seen God; God the Only Son, who is ever with the Father--He has revealed him.

John 3:16

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that every one who believes in him may not be lost, but have Immortal Life.

John 14:9

"Have I been all this time among you," said Jesus, "and yet you, Philip, have not recognized me? He who has seen me has seen the Father, how can you say, then, 'Show us the Father'?

Romans 8:29

For those whom God chose from the first he also destined from the first to be transformed into likeness to his Son, so that his Son might be the eldest among many Brothers.

Philippians 2:6

Though the divine nature was his from the beginning, yet he did not look upon equality with God as above all things to be clung to,

1 Timothy 1:17

To the Immortal King, ever-living, invisible, the one God, be ascribed honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen.

Revelation 3:14

To the Angel of the Church in Laodicaea write:-- "These are the words of the Unchanging One, 'the Witness faithful and true, the Beginning of the Creation of God':--

John 15:24

If I had not done among them such work as no one else ever did, they would have had no sin to answer for; but, as it is, they have both seen and hated both me and my Father.

2 Corinthians 4:6

Indeed, the same God who said 'Out of darkness light shall shine,' has shone in upon our hearts, so that we should bring out into the light the knowledge of the glory of God, seen in the face of Christ.

Colossians 1:13

For God has rescued us from the tyranny of Darkness, and has removed us into the Kingdom of his Son, who is the embodiment of his love,

Colossians 1:16-17

For in him was created all that is in Heaven and on earth, the visible and the invisible--Angels and Archangels and all the Powers of Heaven.

1 Timothy 6:16

who alone is possessed of immortality and dwells in unapproachable light, whom no man has ever seen or ever can see--to whom be ascribed honour and power for ever. Amen.

Hebrews 1:6

And again, when God brought the First-born into the world, he said-- 'Let all the angels of God bow down before him.'

Hebrews 11:27

Faith caused him to leave Egypt, though undaunted by the King's anger, for he was strengthened in his endurance by the vision of the invisible God.