Colossians 1:17

Prayer For Maturity Based On Christ's Preeminence

¹⁶ For by him all things were made, in heaven and on earth, things seen and things unseen, authorities, lords, rulers, and powers; all things were made by him and for him; ¹⁷ He is before all things, and in him all things have being. ¹⁸ And he is the head of the body, the church: the starting point of all things, the first to come again from the dead; so that in all things he might have the chief place.

All Things

Created Through Him

John 8:58

Jesus said to them, Truly I say to you, Before Abraham came into being, I am.

1 Corinthians 8:6

There is for us only one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we are for him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we have our being through him.

Hebrews 1:3

Who, being the outshining of his glory, the true image of his substance, supporting all things by the word of his power, having given himself as an offering making clean from sins, took his seat at the right hand of God in heaven;

Revelation 1:8

I am the First and the Last, says the Lord God who is and was and is to come, the Ruler of all.

Revelation 1:17

And when I saw him, I went down on my face at his feet as one dead. And he put his right hand on me, saying, Have no fear; I am the first and the last and the Living one;

1 Samuel 2:8

Lifting the poor out of the dust, and him who is in need out of the lowest place, to give them their place among rulers, and for their heritage the seat of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the Lord's and he has made them the base of the world.

Psalm 75:3

When the earth and all its people become feeble, I am the support of its pillars. (Selah.)

Proverbs 8:22-23

The Lord made me as the start of his way, the first of his works in the past.

Isaiah 43:11-13

I, even I, am the Lord; and there is no saviour but me.

Isaiah 44:6

The Lord, the King of Israel, even the Lord of armies who has taken up his cause, says, I am the first and the last, and there is no God but me.

Micah 5:2

And you, Beth-lehem Ephrathah, the least among the families of Judah, out of you one will come to me who is to be ruler in Israel; whose going out has been purposed from time past, from the eternal days.

John 1:1-3

From the first he was the Word, and the Word was in relation with God and was God.

John 5:17-18

But his answer was: My Father is still working even now, and so I am working.

John 17:5

And now, Father, let me have glory with you, even that glory which I had with you before the world was.

Acts 17:28

For in him we have life and motion and existence; as certain of your verse writers have said, For we are his offspring.

Colossians 1:15

Who is the image of the unseen God and existed before all living things;

Hebrews 13:8

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and for ever.

Revelation 1:11

Saying, What you see, put in a book, and send it 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 say: These things says the first and the last, who was dead and is living: