Colossians 1:18

Christ is the head of the church and the firstborn from the dead, so that He has first place in everything. He rules both the new creation and His people.

Cross-references · 34

• Eph 1:22–23He put all things in subjection under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things for the assembly,
• Rev 1:5and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us, and washed us from our sins by his blood;
• Eph 4:15–16but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, Christ;
• 1 Cor 15:20–23But now Christ has been raised from the dead. He became the first fruits of those who are asleep.
• Acts 26:23how the Christ must suffer, and how, by the resurrection of the dead, he would be first to proclaim light both to these people and to the Gentiles.”
• Matt 28:18Jesus came to them and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.
• Ps 89:27I will also appoint him my firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth.
• 1 Cor 11:3But I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.
• Rev 22:13I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.
• Eph 5:23For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the assembly, being himself the savior of the body.
• John 11:25–26Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies.
• Rev 21:6He said to me, “I have become the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give freely to him who is thirsty from the spring of the water of life.
• Rev 1:18and the Living one. I was dead, and behold, I am alive forever more. Amen. I have the keys of Death and of Hades.
• Rom 8:29For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.
• John 3:29–31He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom’s voice. This, my joy, therefore is made full.
• 1 Cor 15:25For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet.
• Col 1:24Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the assembly;
• Col 2:10–14and in him you are made full, who is the head of all principality and power;
• Heb 1:5–6For to which of the angels did he say at any time, “You are my Son. Today I have become your father?” and again, “I will be to him a Father, and he will be to me a Son?”
• Rev 21:23–24The city has no need for the sun, neither of the moon, to shine, for the very glory of God illuminated it, and its lamp is the Lamb.
• Rev 5:9–13They sang a new song, saying, “You are worthy to take the book, and to open its seals: for you were killed, and bought us for God with your blood, out of every tribe, language, people, and nation,
• Matt 23:8But don’t you be called ‘Rabbi,’ for one is your teacher, the Christ, and all of you are brothers.
• John 3:34–35For he whom God has sent speaks the words of God; for God gives the Spirit without measure.
• 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.”
• John 1:1In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
• Eph 1:10to an administration of the fullness of the times, to sum up all things in Christ, the things in the heavens, and the things on the earth, in him;
• Rev 11:15The seventh angel sounded, and great voices in heaven followed, saying, “The kingdom of the world has become the Kingdom of our Lord, and of his Christ. He will reign forever and ever!”
• John 1:27He is the one who comes after me, who is preferred before me, whose sandal strap I’m not worthy to loosen.”
• John 1:16From his fullness we all received grace upon grace.
• Isa 52:13Behold, my servant will deal wisely. He will be exalted and lifted up, and will be very high.
• Rev 3:14“To the angel of the assembly in Laodicea write: “The Amen, the Faithful and True Witness, the Head of God’s creation, says these things:
• 1 Jn 1:1That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we saw, and our hands touched, concerning the Word of life
• Song 5:10My beloved is white and ruddy. The best among ten thousand.
• Ps 45:2–5You are the most excellent of the sons of men. Grace has anointed your lips, therefore God has blessed you forever.

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