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 1:3His 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 purified us of our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
• 1 Cor 8:6yet 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.
• 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, ‘For we are also his offspring.’
• John 17:5Now, Father, glorify me with your own self with the glory which I had with you before the world existed.
• John 8:58Jesus said to them, “Most certainly, I tell you, before Abraham came into existence, I AM. ”
• Ps 75:3The earth and all its inhabitants quake. I firmly hold its pillars. Selah.
• Rev 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.”
• Col 1:15who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.
• Isa 44:6This 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.
• Prov 8:22–23“Yahweh possessed me in the beginning of his work, before his deeds of old.
• Isa 43:11–13I myself am Yahweh; and besides me there is no savior.
• Rev 1:17When 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,
• Heb 13:8Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
• Rev 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:
• 1 Sam 2:8He 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.
• Mic 5:2But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, being small among the clans of Judah, out of you one will come out to me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings out are from of old, from ancient times.
• John 5:17–18But Jesus answered them, “My Father is still working, so I am working, too.”
• Rev 1:11saying, “What you see, write in a book and send to the seven assemblies: to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.”

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