Colossians 1:17

Prayer For Maturity Based On Christ's Preeminence

¹⁶ for by him were all things created which are in heaven and on the earth, the visible and the invisible, whether thrones, or lordships, or principalities, or powers. All things were created through him and for him, ¹⁷ and he is before all things, and in him all things consist, ¹⁸ and he is the head of the body, the church; who is the beginning, the first-born from the dead, that he might himself be preeminent in all things,

All Things

Created Through Him

John 8:58

Jesus said to them, I tell you most truly, that before Abraham existed, I am.

1 Corinthians 8:6

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

Hebrews 1:3

who being the brightness of his glory and the express image of his substance, and sustaining all things by the word of his power, having made a purification of sins, sat down on the right hand of the majesty on high,

Revelation 1:8

I am the Alpha and the Omega, says the Lord God; the Is, and the Was, and the Is to come, the Almighty.

Revelation 1:17

And when I saw him I fell at his feet as dead; and he put 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 Jesus answered them, My Father works even till now, and I work.

John 17:5

And now glorify thou me, Father, 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 are; as some also of your own poets have said, For we are his offspring.

Colossians 1:15

who is the likeness of the invisible God, the first-born of all creation,

Hebrews 13:8

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, to-day, and forever.

Revelation 1:11

saying, What you see write in a book, and send to the seven churches, to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamus 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, These things says the first and the last, who was dead and lived,