Colossians 1:17

Christ exists before all things and holds the whole universe together. He is eternal and the sustainer of everything.

Cross-references · 19

• Heb 1:3The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of His nature, upholding all things by His powerful word. After He had provided purification for sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.
• 1 Cor 8:6yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came and for whom we exist. And there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things came and through whom we exist.
• John 1:1–3In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
• Acts 17:28‘For in Him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are His offspring.’
• John 17:5And now, Father, glorify Me in Your presence with the glory I had with You before the world existed.
• John 8:58“Truly, truly, I tell you,” Jesus declared, “before Abraham was born, I am!”
• Ps 75:3When the earth and all its dwellers quake, it is I who bear up its pillars. Selah
• Rev 1:8“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, who is and was and is to come—the Almighty.
• Col 1:15The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.
• Isa 44:6Thus says the LORD, the King and Redeemer of Israel, the LORD of Hosts: “I am the first and I am the last, and there is no God but Me.
• Prov 8:22–23The LORD created me as His first course, before His works of old.
• Isa 43:11–13I, yes I, am the LORD, and there is no Savior but Me.
• Rev 1:17When I saw Him, I fell at His feet like a dead man. But He placed His right hand on me and said, “Do not be afraid. I am the First and the Last,
• Heb 13:8Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.
• Rev 2:8To the angel of the church in Smyrna write: These are the words of the First and the Last, who died and returned to life.
• 1 Sam 2:8He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap. He seats them among princes and bestows on them a throne of honor. For the foundations of the earth are the LORD’s, and upon them He has set the world.
• Mic 5:2But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, who are small among the clans of Judah, out of you will come forth for Me One to be ruler over Israel—One whose origins are of old, from the days of eternity.
• John 5:17–18But Jesus answered them, “To this very day My Father is at His work, and I too am working.”
• Rev 1:11saying, “Write on a scroll what you see and send it to the seven churches: to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea.”

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