Colossians 1:17

Prayer For Maturity Based On Christ's Preeminence

¹⁶ All things in the heavens and upon the earth where created through him. The things visible and invisible were created through him. Whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers; all things have been created through him, and for him. ¹⁷ He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together. ¹⁸ He is the head of the body, the congregation. He is the beginning (commencement), the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence (first place).

All Things

Created Through Him

John 8:58

Jesus said: I tell you the truth, I existed before Abraham was born! (Ex 3:14, 15)

1 Corinthians 8:6

But to us there is but one God, the Father. All things come from him and we live for him. And there is one Lord Jesus Christ. All things were made through him and we were made through him.

Hebrews 1:3

God's Son is the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his being. He sustains all things by his powerful word. After Jesus purged our sins, he sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high.

Revelation 1:8

I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end, says Jehovah (YHWH) God, the one who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty (all ruling) (universal sovereign). (Isaiah 48:12)

Revelation 1:17

When I saw him, I fell as dead at his feet. He laid his right hand on me and said: Do not fear. I am the first and the last:

1 Samuel 2:8

He raises the poor from the dust. He lifts up the needy from the dunghill to set them among the princes. He causes them to inherit a throne of glory (honor). The pillars of the earth are Jehovah's. He sets the world on them.

Psalm 75:3

The earth and all who dwell in it dissolve (melt) (become faint hearted). I have firmly set its pillars.

Proverbs 8:22-23

Jehovah created me in the beginning of his way, before his works of antiquity.

Isaiah 43:11-13

I ALONE AM JEHOVAH, AND THERE IS NO SAVIOR BESIDES ME.

Isaiah 44:6

This is what Jehovah, Israel's King and Redeemer, Jehovah of Hosts says: 'I AM THE FIRST AND I AM THE LAST-APART FROM ME THERE IS NO GOD!

Micah 5:2

You Bethlehem Ephrathah who are little to be among the thousands of Judah. Out of you one will come to me who is to be ruler in Israel! His origin is from of old, from everlasting (days of antiquity) (ancient times).

John 1:1-3

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was like God (God-like).

John 5:17-18

Jesus responded to them: My Father works until now and I work.

John 17:5

And now, Father, glorify me with you, the glory that I had with you before the world existed.

Acts 17:28

In him we live, and move, and have our existence. Your own poets have said: For we are also his offspring.

Colossians 1:15

He is the image (likeness) (representation) of the invisible God. He is the firstborn (Greek: prototokos: childbirth, offspring) of all creation.

Hebrews 13:8

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.

Revelation 1:11

It said: Write what you see in a book and send it to the seven congregations in Asia: to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea.

Revelation 2:8

To the angel of the congregation in Smyrna write: This is the message from the one who is the 'First and the Last', who died and came to life again.