Colossians 1:17

Prayer For Maturity Based On Christ's Preeminence

¹⁶ for by him were all things created, that are in the heavens and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they are thrones or dominions or principalities or powers: all things were created by him and in him; ¹⁷ He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together. ¹⁸ And he is the head of the body, the congregation , who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things he might have the preeminence.

All Things

Created Through Him

John 8:58

Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I AM.

1 Corinthians 8:6

but to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.

Hebrews 1:3

who being the brightness of his glory and the express image of his substance and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;

Revelation 1:8

I AM the Alpha and the Omega, beginning and end, saith the Lord, 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 unto me, Fear not; I AM the first and the last,

1 Samuel 2:8

He raises up the poor out of the dust and lifts up the beggar from the dunghill to set them among princes and to make them inherit the throne of glory. For the pillars of the earth are the LORD's, and he has set the world upon them.

Psalm 75:3

The earth and all its inhabitants are dissolved; I bore up the pillars of it. Selah.

Proverbs 8:22-23

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

Isaiah 43:11-13

I, even I, am the LORD; and beside me there is no saviour.

Isaiah 44:6

Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel and his redeemer, the LORD of the hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God.

Micah 5:2

But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be Lord in Israel; and his goings forth are from the beginning, from the days of the ages.

John 1:1-3

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with the 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, O Father, clarify thou me with thine own self with that clarity which I had with thee before the world was.

Acts 17:28

for in him we live and move and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also of his lineage.

Colossians 1:15

who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature;

Hebrews 13:8

Jesus Christ the same yesterday and today and for the ages.

Revelation 1:11

that said, I AM the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, and What thou seest, write in a book and send it unto the seven congregations which are in Asia: unto Ephesus and unto Smyrna and unto Pergamos and unto Thyatira and unto Sardis and unto Philadelphia and unto Laodicea.

Revelation 2:8

And unto the angel of the congregation of Smyrna write: These things, saith the first and the last, who was dead, and is alive: