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 1:3Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
• 1 Cor 8:6But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.
• John 1:1–3In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
• Acts 17:28For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.
• John 17:5And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.
• John 8:58Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am.
• Ps 75:3The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I bear up the pillars of it. Selah.
• Rev 1:8I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.
• Col 1:15Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:
• Isa 44:6Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel, and his redeemer the LORD of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God.
• Prov 8:22–23The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old.
• Isa 43:11–13I, even I, am the LORD; and beside me there is no saviour.
• Rev 1:17And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I am the first and the last:
• Heb 13:8Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.
• Rev 2:8And unto the angel of the church in Smyrna write; These things saith the first and the last, which was dead, and is alive;
• 1 Sam 2:8He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the LORD’s, and he hath set the world upon them.
• Mic 5:2But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.
• John 5:17–18But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work.
• Rev 1:11Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and, What thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the seven churches which are in Asia; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea.

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