Colossians 1:17 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹⁷ and he is before all things, and in him all things consist.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ and he is before all things, and by him all things consist.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ And He Himself existed before all things, and in Him all things consist (cohere, are held together). [Prov. 8:22-31.]

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ and he is before all things, and in him all things consist.

Common English Bible

¹⁷ He existed before all things, and all things are held together in him.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ And he is before all, and in him all things continue.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁷ And he is before all, and by him all things consist.

Colossians 1:17 Cross References

Psalm 75:3

The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I have set up the pillars of it. Selah

Isaiah 44:6

Thus 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.

Micah 5:2

But thou, Beth-lehem Ephrathah, which art little to be among the thousands of Judah, out of thee shall one come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth are from of old, from everlasting.

John 17:5

And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.

John 8:58

Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am.

Acts 17:28

for in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain even of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.

1 Corinthians 8:6

yet to us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we unto him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we through him.

Colossians 1:15

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

Hebrews 1:3

who being the effulgence of his glory, and the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had made purification of sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;

Hebrews 13:8

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today, yea and for ever.

Revelation 1:11

saying, What thou seest, write in a book, and send it to the seven churches; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamum, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea.

Revelation 1:17

And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as one dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying, Fear not; I am the first and the last,

Revelation 1:8

I am the Alpha and the Omega, saith the Lord God, which is and which was and which is to come, the Almighty.

Revelation 2:8

And to the angel of the church in Smyrna write; These things saith the first and the last, which was dead, and lived again:

1 Samuel 2:8

He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, he lifteth 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 the LORD'S, and he hath set the world upon them.