Colossians 1:18

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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.

Cross References

Song of Solomon 5:10

I bind you by oath, O daughters of Jerusalem, if you find my beloved, announce to him that I languish through love.

Isaiah 52:13

Behold, my servant will understand; he will be exalted and lifted up, and he will be very sublime.

Matthew 23:8

But you must not be called Master. For One is your Master, and you are all brothers.

Matthew 28:18

And Jesus, drawing near, spoke to them, saying: "All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.

John 1:1

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

John 1:16

And from his fullness, we all have received, even grace for grace.

John 1:27

The same is he who is to come after me, who has been placed ahead of me, the laces of whose shoes I am not worthy to loosen."

Acts 26:23

that the Christ would suffer, and that he would be the first from the resurrection of the dead, and that he would bring light to the people and to the nations."

Romans 8:29

For those whom he foreknew, he also predestinated, in conformity with the image of his Son, so that he might be the Firstborn among many brothers.

1 Corinthians 11:3

So I want you to know that the head of every man is Christ. But the head of woman is man. Yet truly, the head of Christ is God.

1 Corinthians 12:27

Now you are the body of Christ, and parts like any part.

1 Corinthians 15:25

For it is necessary for him to reign, until he has set all his enemies under his feet.

Ephesians 1:10

in the dispensation of the fullness of time, so as to renew in Christ everything that exists through him in heaven and on earth.

Ephesians 5:23

For the husband is the head of the wife, just as Christ is the head of the Church. He is the Savior of his body.

Colossians 1:24

For now I rejoice in my passion on your behalf, and I complete in my flesh the things that are lacking in the Passion of Christ, for the sake of his body, which is the Church.

Colossians 2:19

and not holding up the head, with which the whole body, by its underlying joints and ligaments, is joined together and grows with an increase that is of God.

1 John 1:1

He who was from the beginning, whom we have heard, whom we have seen with our eyes, upon whom we have gazed, and whom our hands have certainly touched: He is the Word of Life.

Revelation 1:18

And I am alive, though I was dead. And, behold, I live forever and ever. And I hold the keys of death and of Hell.

Revelation 1:5

and from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, the first-born of the dead, and the leader over the kings of the earth, who has loved us and has washed us from our sins with his blood,

Revelation 1:8

"I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End," says the Lord God, who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty.

Revelation 11:15

And the seventh Angel sounded the trumpet. And there were great voices in heaven, saying: "The kingdom of this world has become our Lord's and his Christ's, and he shall reign forever and ever. Amen."

Revelation 21:6

And he said to me: "It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To those who thirst, I will give freely from the fountain of the water of life.

Revelation 22:13

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

Revelation 3:14

And to the Angel of the Church of Laodicea write: Thus says the Amen, the faithful and true Witness, who is the Beginning of the creation of God: