Colossians 1:17

Prayer For Maturity Based On Christ's Preeminence

¹⁶ for in him were created all things, those in the heavens, and those on the earth, the visible and the invisible, whether thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers, all things have been created through him and for him; ¹⁷ and he is before all things, and in him all things subsist. ¹⁸ And he is the head of the body, the church; since he is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that he may be in all things preeminent;

All Things

Created Through Him

John 8:58

Jesus said to them, Truly, truly do I say to you, From before Abraham was, I have been.

1 Corinthians 8:6

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

Hebrews 1:3

who being a brightness from his glory and an image of his being, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself accomplished a cleansing of sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;

Revelation 1:8

I am the Alpha and the Omega, saith the Lord God, he 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 on 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 he answered them, My Father is working up to this time, and I work.

John 17:5

and now, Father! do thou 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 are also his offspring."

Colossians 1:15

who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of the whole creation;

Hebrews 13:8

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

Revelation 1:11

saying: What thou seest, write in a book, and send it to the seven churches; to Ephesus, and to Smyrna, and to Pergamus, and to Thyatira, and to Sardes, and to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.

Revelation 2:8

And to the angel of the church in Smyrna write: These things saith the first and the last, who was dead, and lived again: