Colossians 1:17

Prayer For Maturity Based On Christ's Preeminence

¹⁶ For by him were all things created, things in the heavens, and things upon earth, things visible and invisible, whether thrones, whether dominions, whether beginnings, whether authorities: all were created by him, and for him: ¹⁷ And he is before all, and all things have been established by him. ¹⁸ And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that he might be the first in all

All Things

Created Through Him

John 8:58

And Jesus said to them, Truly, truly, I say to you, Before Abraham was born, I am.

1 Corinthians 8:6

But to us one God, the Father, of whom all things, and we for him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom all things, and we by him.

Hebrews 1:3

Who being the brightness of glory, and the figure of his foundation, and bearing all things by the word of his power, having made by himself the purification of our sins, he sat down on the right hand of the Majesty among the highest ones;

Revelation 1:8

I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end, says the Lord, who being, and who was, and who coming, the Omnipotent Ruler.

Revelation 1:17

And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he put his right hand upon me, saying to me, Be not afraid;I am the the first and the last:

1 Samuel 2:8

Raising up the weak from the dust, he will raise up the needy from the dung-hill to sit with the noble, and he will cause them to inherit a throne of glory, for to Jehovah the castings of the earth, and he will put the habitable globe upon them.

Psalm 75:3

The earth and all dwelling in it being melted: I made even its pillars. Silence.

Proverbs 8:22-23

Jehovah set me up the beginning of his way, before his works from ancient time.

Isaiah 43:11-13

I, I, Jehovah, and none saving besides me.

Isaiah 44:6

Thus said Jehovah king of Israel, and Jehovah of armies, redeeming him, I the first and I the last; and besides me no God.

Micah 5:2

And thou, house of bread, of Ephratah, for being small among the thousands of Judah, out of thee shall come forth to me he being ruler in Israel; and his goings forth from of old from the days of eternity.

John 1:1-3

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and God was the Word.

John 5:17-18

And Jesus answered, My Father works till now, and I work.

John 17:5

And now, honour thou me, O Father, with thyself, with the honour which I had with thee before the world was.

Acts 17:28

For in him we live, and move, and are; as certain of the composers among you have said, For we also are his race.

Colossians 1:15

Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation:

Hebrews 13:8

Jesus Christ, yesterday, and to day the same, and for ever.

Revelation 1:11

I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last: and, What thou seest, write in a book, and send to the seven churches which in Asia; 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 messenger of the church of the Smyrnians write; Thus says the first and the last, who was dead and he lived;