Colossians 1:17

Prayer For Maturity Based On Christ's Preeminence

¹⁶ Because in him all things were created, things in the heavens and things upon the earth, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or lordships or principal offices or positions of authority, all things have been created ¹⁷ And he is before all, and in him all things hold together. ¹⁸ And he is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that he might become preeminent in all things.

All Things

Created Through Him

John 8:58

Jesus said to them, Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham came to be, I am.

1 Corinthians 8:6

yet to us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things, and we for him, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we through him.

Hebrews 1:3

Who, being the radiance of his glory, and the exact image of his essence, and upholding all things by the word of his power, having made purification of our sins through himself, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in the

Revelation 1:8

I am the Alpha and the Omega, says Lord, the God who is and who was and who is coming, 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, Fear not, 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 make them sit with rulers, and inherit the throne of glory. For the pillars of the earth are LORD's, and he has set the world upon them.

Psalm 75:3

[when] the earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved. I have set up the pillars of it. Selah.

Proverbs 8:22-23

LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old.

Isaiah 43:11-13

I, even I, am LORD, and besides me there is no savior.

Isaiah 44:6

Thus says LORD, the King of Israel, and his Redeemer, LORD of hosts: I am the first, and I am the last, and besides me there is no God.

Micah 5:2

But thou, Bethlehem Ephrathah, which are little to be among the thousands of Judah, out of thee he shall come forth to me who is to be ruler in Israel, whose goings forth are from of old, from everlasting.

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 thou me with thyself with the glory that I had with thee before the world was.

Acts 17:28

For in him we live, and move, and exist, as also some of the performers from you have said, For of him we are also offspring.

Colossians 1:15

who is an image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.

Hebrews 13:8

Jesus Christ, the same yesterday and today, and into the ages.

Revelation 1:11

saying, What thou see, write in a book and send to the seven congregations: 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 agent of the congregation in Smyrna write, These things says the first and the last, who became dead, and lived: