Colossians 1:18

Prayer For Maturity Based On Christ's Preeminence

¹⁷ and himself is before all, and the all things in him have consisted. ¹⁸ And himself is the head of the body -- the assembly -- who is a beginning, a first-born out of the dead, that he might become in all things -- himself -- first, ¹⁹ because in him it did please all the fulness to tabernacle,

All Things

Firstborn from the Dead

Head of the Body

Head of the Church

Rise from the Dead

Ephesians 1:22-23

and all things He did put under his feet, and did give him -- head over all things to the assembly,

Revelation 1:5

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the first-born out of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth; to him who did love us, and did bathe us from our sins in his blood,

Acts 26:23

that the Christ is to suffer, whether first by a rising from the dead, he is about to proclaim light to the people and to the nations.'

John 3:29-31

he who is having the bride is bridegroom, and the friend of the bridegroom, who is standing and hearing him, with joy doth rejoice because of the voice of the bridegroom; this, then, my joy hath been fulfilled.

1 Corinthians 11:3

and I wish you to know that of every man the head is the Christ, and the head of a woman is the husband, and the head of Christ is God.

Ephesians 4:15-16

and, being true in love, we may increase to Him in all things, who is the head -- the Christ;

Ephesians 5:23

because the husband is head of the wife, as also the Christ is head of the assembly, and he is saviour of the body,

Revelation 3:14

And to the messenger of the assembly of the Laodiceans write: These things saith the Amen, the witness -- the faithful and true -- the chief of the creation of God;

Revelation 5:9-13

and they sing a new song, saying, 'Worthy art thou to take the scroll, and to open the seals of it, because thou wast slain, and didst redeem us to God in thy blood, out of every tribe, and tongue, and people, and nation,

Revelation 11:15

And the seventh messenger did sound, and there came great voices in the heaven, saying, 'The kingdoms of the world did become those of our Lord and of His Christ, and he shall reign to the ages of the ages!'

Psalm 89:27

I also first-born do appoint him, Highest of the kings of the earth.

Isaiah 52:13

Lo, My servant doth act wisely, He is high, and hath been lifted up, And hath been very high.

Matthew 23:8

And ye -- ye may not be called Rabbi, for one is your director -- the Christ, and all ye are brethren;

Matthew 28:18

And having come near, Jesus spake to them, saying, 'Given to me was all authority in heaven and on earth;

John 1:1

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God;

John 1:16

and out of his fulness did we all receive, and grace over-against grace;

John 1:27

of whom I am not worthy that I may loose the cord of his sandal.'

John 3:34-35

for he whom God sent, the sayings of God he speaketh; for not by measure doth God give the Spirit;

John 11:25-26

Jesus said to her, 'I am the rising again, and the life; he who is believing in me, even if he may die, shall live;

Romans 8:29

because whom He did foreknow, He also did fore-appoint, conformed to the image of His Son, that he might be first-born among many brethren;

1 Corinthians 15:20-23

And now, Christ hath risen out of the dead -- the first-fruits of those sleeping he became,

1 Corinthians 15:25

for it behoveth him to reign till he may have put all the enemies under his feet --

Ephesians 1:10

in regard to the dispensation of the fulness of the times, to bring into one the whole in the Christ, both the things in the heavens, and the things upon the earth -- in him;

Colossians 1:24

I now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and do fill up the things lacking of the tribulations of the Christ in my flesh for his body, which is the assembly,

Colossians 2:10-14

and ye are in him made full, who is the head of all principality and authority,

Hebrews 1:5-6

For to which of the messengers said He ever, 'My Son thou art -- I to-day have begotten thee?' and again, 'I will be to him for a father, and he shall be to Me for a son?'

1 John 1:1

That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we did behold, and our hands did handle, concerning the Word of the Life --

Revelation 1:8

I am the Alpha and the Omega, beginning and end, saith the Lord, who is, and who was, and who is coming -- the Almighty.'

Revelation 1:18

and he who is living, and I did become dead, and, lo, I am living to the ages of the ages. Amen! and I have the keys of the hades and of the death.

Revelation 21:6

and He said to me, 'It hath been done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End; I, to him who is thirsting, will give of the fountain of the water of the life freely;

Revelation 21:23-24

and the city hath no need of the sun, nor of the moon, that they may shine in it; for the glory of God did lighten it, and the lamp of it is the Lamb;

Revelation 22:13

I am the Alpha and the Omega -- the Beginning and End -- the First and the Last.

Psalm 45:2-5

Thou hast been beautified above the sons of men, Grace hath been poured into thy lips, Therefore hath God blessed thee to the age.

Song of Songs 5:10

My beloved is clear and ruddy, Conspicuous above a myriad!