Colossians 1:17

Prayer For Maturity Based On Christ's Preeminence

¹⁶ For by him all things were created, in the heavens and on the earth, things visible and things invisible, 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 are held together. ¹⁸ He is the head of the body, the assembly, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.

All Things

Created Through Him

John 8:58

Jesus said to them, "Most certainly, I tell you, before Abraham came into existence, I AM."

1 Corinthians 8:6

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

Hebrews 1:3

His Son is the radiance of his glory, the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself made purification for our 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, "who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty."

Revelation 1:17

When I saw him, I fell at his feet like a dead man. He laid his right hand on me, saying, "Don't be afraid. I am the first and the last,

1 Samuel 2:8

He raises up the poor out of the dust. He lifts up the needy from the dunghill, To make them sit with princes, and inherit the throne of glory. For the pillars of the earth are Yahweh's. He has set the world on them.

Psalm 75:3

The earth and all its inhabitants quake. I firmly hold its pillars. Selah.

Proverbs 8:22-23

"Yahweh possessed me in the beginning of his work, before his deeds of old.

Isaiah 43:11-13

I myself am Yahweh; and besides me there is no savior.

Isaiah 44:6

This is what Yahweh, the King of Israel, and his Redeemer, Yahweh of Armies, says: "I am the first, and I am the last; and besides me there is no God.

Micah 5:2

But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, being small among the clans of Judah, out of you one will come forth to me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth are from of old, from everlasting.

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 is still working, so I am working, too."

John 17:5

Now, Father, glorify me with your own self with the glory which I had with you before the world existed.

Acts 17:28

'For in him we live, and move, and have our being.' As 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 all creation.

Hebrews 13:8

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Revelation 1:11

saying, "What you see, write in a book and send to the seven assemblies: to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and to Laodicea."

Revelation 2:8

"To the angel of the assembly in Smyrna write: "The first and the last, who was dead, and has come to life says these things: