Colossians 1:17

Prayer For Maturity Based On Christ's Preeminence

¹⁶ because all [things] in the heavens and on the earth were created by him, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or powers, all [things] were created through him and for him, ¹⁷ and he himself is before all [things], and in him all [things] are held together, ¹⁸ and he himself is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that he himself may become first in everything,

All Things

Created Through Him

John 8:58

Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly I say to you, before Abraham was, I am!"

1 Corinthians 8:6

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

Hebrews 1:3

who is the radiance of his glory and the representation of his essence, sustaining all [things] by the word of power. [When he] had made purification for sins through him, he 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, the one who is and the one who was and the one who is coming, the All-Powerful.

Revelation 1:17

And when I saw him, I fell at his feet like a dead person, and he placed his right hand on me, saying, "Do not be afraid! I am the first and the last,

1 Samuel 2:8

He raises up the poor from [the] dust. From [the] ash heap he lifts up the needy, to cause them to sit with noble people and to cause them to inherit a seat of honor. For the pillars of the earth belong to Yahweh and he has set the inhabited world on them.

Psalm 75:3

[The] earth and all its inhabitants [are] shaking; I steady its columns. Selah

Proverbs 8:22-23

"Yahweh possessed me, [the] first of his ways, before his acts {of old}.

Isaiah 43:11-13

I myself [am] Yahweh, and there is no savior besides me!

Isaiah 44:6

Thus says Yahweh, the king of Israel, and its redeemer, Yahweh of hosts: "I [am the] first, and I [am the] last, and there is no god besides me.

Micah 5:2

But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, [too] small to be among the clans of Judah, from you one will go out for me, to be ruler in Israel; and his origins [are] from of old, from ancient days.

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 he answered them, "My Father is working until now, and I am working."

John 17:5

And now, Father, you glorify me {at your side} with the glory that I had {at your side} before the world existed.

Acts 17:28

for in him we live and move and exist, as even some of {your own} poets have said: 'For we also are {his} offspring.'

Colossians 1:15

who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation,

Hebrews 13:8

Jesus Christ [is] the same yesterday and today and {forever}.

Revelation 1:11

saying, "What you see, write in a book and send [it] to the seven churches: to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamum 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: "This is what the first and the last says, who was dead and came to life: