Colossians 1:17

Prayer For Maturity Based On Christ's Preeminence

¹⁶ for by him were all things created, things in heaven and things in earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones, or lordships, or principalities, or authorities; all things were created by 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: and he is the beginning, the first-born from the dead, that in all things he might be preeminent;

All Things

Created Through Him

John 8:58

Jesus said to them: Verily, verily I say to you, before Abraham came into being, I was.

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, by whom are all things, and we by him.

Hebrews 1:3

who, being the effulgence of his glory and the exact representation of his essence, and upholding all things by his own powerful word, when he had by himself made expiation for our sins, sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,

Revelation 1:8

I am the Alpha and the Omega, says the Lord God, 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: Fear not, I am the First and the Last,

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 till now, and I also work.

John 17:5

And now, Father, glorify me with thyself, with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.

Acts 17:28

For in him we live, and move, and have our being: as also some of your own poets have said: For we his offspring are.

Colossians 1:15

who is the image of the invisible God, the first-born of every creature;

Hebrews 13:8

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, and to-day, and forever.

Revelation 1:11

saying: What you see, write in a book, and send to the seven churches; 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: These things says the First and the Last, who was dead, and is alive: