Colossians 1:17

Prayer For Maturity Based On Christ's Preeminence

¹⁶ For in him was created all that is in Heaven and on earth, the visible and the invisible--Angels and Archangels and all the Powers of Heaven. ¹⁷ All has been created through him and for him. He was before all things, and all things unite in him; ¹⁸ And he is the Head of the Church, which is his Body. The First-born from the dead, he is to the Church the Source of its Life, that he, in all things, may stand first.

All Things

Created Through Him

John 8:58

"In truth I tell you," replied Jesus, "before Abraham existed I was."

1 Corinthians 8:6

Yet for us there is only one God, the Father, from whom all things come (and for him we live), and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things come (and through him we live).

Hebrews 1:3

For he is the radiance of the Glory of God and the very expression of his Being, upholding all creation by the power of his word; and, when he had made an expiation for the sins of men, he 'took his seat at the right hand' of God's Majesty on high,

Revelation 1:8

'I am the Alpha and the Omega,' says the Lord, the God who is, and who was, and who shall be, the Almighty.

Revelation 1:17

And, when I saw him, I fell at his feet like one dead. He laid his hand on me and said-- 'Do not be afraid. I am the First and the Last,

John 1:1-3

In the Beginning the Word was; and the Word was with God; and the Word was God.

John 5:17-18

But Jesus replied: "My Father works to this very hour, and I work also."

John 17:5

And now do thou honor me, Father, at thy own side, with the honor which I had at thy side before the world began.

Acts 17:28

For in him we live and move and are. To use the words of some of your own poets--'His offspring, too, are we.'

Colossians 1:15

For Christ is the very incarnation of the invisible God-- First-born and Head of all creation;

Hebrews 13:8

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and to-day--yes, and for ever!

Revelation 1:11

It said-- 'Write what you see in a book and send it to the seven Churches, to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamus, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicaea.'

Revelation 2:8

To the Angel of the Church in Smyrna write:-- "These are the words of him who is the First and the Last, who died, but is restored to life:--