Colossians 1:18 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁸ He is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that he might come to have first place in everything.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁸ And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁸ He also is the Head of [His] body, the church; seeing He is the Beginning, the Firstborn from among the dead, so that He alone in everything and in every respect might occupy the chief place [stand first and be preeminent].

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁸ And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.

Common English Bible

¹⁸ He is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the one who is firstborn from among the dead so that he might occupy the first place in everything.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁸ And he is the head of his body, the Church. He is the beginning, the first-born from the dead, so that in all things he may hold primacy.

Colossians 1:18 Cross References

Revelation 1:5

and 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 freed us from our sins by his blood

Acts 26:23

that the Messiah must suffer and that, by being the first to rise from the dead, he would proclaim light both to our people and to the gentiles.”

Matthew 28:18

And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.

Psalm 89:27

I will make him the firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth.

1 Corinthians 11:3

But I want you to understand that Christ is the head of every man, and the man is the head of the woman, and God is the head of Christ.

Revelation 22:13

I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.”

Ephesians 5:23

for the husband is the head of the wife just as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior.

Revelation 21:6

Then he said to me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To the thirsty I will give water as a gift from the spring of the water of life.

1 Corinthians 15:25

For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet.

Revelation 11:15

Then the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, saying, “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Messiah, and he will reign forever and ever.”

Revelation 1:18

and the Living One. I was dead, and see, I am alive forever and ever, and I have the keys of Death and of Hades.

Revelation 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.

Colossians 1:24

I am now rejoicing in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am completing what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the church.

Ephesians 1:10

as a plan for the fullness of time, to gather up all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth.

John 1:27

the one who is coming after me; I am not worthy to untie the strap of his sandal.”

John 1:16

From his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace.

John 1:1

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

Revelation 3:14

“And to the angel of the church in Laodicea write: The words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the origin of God’s creation:

1 John 1:1

We declare to you what was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we have looked at and touched with our hands, concerning the word of life—

Romans 8:29

For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn within a large family.

Matthew 23:8

But you are not to be called rabbi, for you have one teacher, and you are all brothers and sisters.

Isaiah 52:13

See, my servant shall prosper; he shall be exalted and lifted up and shall be very high.

Song of Solomon 5:10

My beloved is all radiant and ruddy, distinguished among ten thousand.

1 Corinthians 12:27

Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it.

Colossians 2:19

and not holding fast to the head, from whom the whole body, nourished and held together by its ligaments and tendons, grows with a growth that is from God.