Colossians 1:15 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹⁵ He is the image of the invisible God, the first-born of all creation;

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁵ Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁵ [Now] He is the exact likeness of the unseen God [the visible representation of the invisible]; He is the Firstborn of all creation.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁵ who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation;

Common English Bible

¹⁵ The Son is the image of the invisible God, the one who is first over all creation,

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁵ He is the image of the invisible God, the first-born of every creature.

Colossians 1:15 Cross References

Hebrews 1:3

He reflects the glory of God and bears the very stamp of his nature, upholding the universe by his word of power. When he had made purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,

John 14:9

Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and yet you do not know me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father; how can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?

John 1:1

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

2 Corinthians 4:4

In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the likeness of God.

John 1:18

No one has ever seen God; the only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he has made him known.

John 1:14

And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, full of grace and truth; we have beheld his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father.

Philippians 2:6

who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped,

2 Corinthians 4:6

For it is the God who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ.

Psalm 89:27

And I will make him the first-born, the highest of the kings of the earth.

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 first-born among many brethren.

1 Timothy 1:17

To the King of ages, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory for ever and ever. Amen.

Revelation 3:14

“And to the angel of the church in La-odicea write: ‘The words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of God's creation.

Hebrews 1:6

And again, when he brings the first-born into the world, he says, “Let all God's angels worship him.”

1 Timothy 6:16

who alone has immortality and dwells in unapproachable light, whom no man has ever seen or can see. To him be honor and eternal dominion. Amen.

John 15:24

If I had not done among them the works which no one else did, they would not have sin; but now they have seen and hated both me and my Father.

John 3:16

For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Colossians 1:13

He has delivered us from the dominion of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son,

Hebrews 11:27

By faith he left Egypt, not being afraid of the anger of the king; for he endured as seeing him who is invisible.

Numbers 12:8

With him I speak mouth to mouth, clearly, and not in dark speech; and he beholds the form of the Lord. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?”

Exodus 24:10

and they saw the God of Israel; and there was under his feet as it were a pavement of sapphire stone, like the very heaven for clearness.