Colossians 1:18

New English Translation

He is the head of the body, the church, as well as the beginning, the firstborn from among the dead, so that he himself may become first in all things.

Cross References

Psalm 89:27

I will appoint him to be my firstborn son, the most exalted of the earth’s kings.

Song of Solomon 5:10

My beloved is dazzling and ruddy; he stands out in comparison to all other men.

Isaiah 52:13

“Look, my servant will succeed! He will be elevated, lifted high, and greatly exalted –

Matthew 23:8

But you are not to be called ‘Rabbi,’ for you have one Teacher and you are all brothers.

Matthew 28:18

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

John 1:1

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

John 1:16

For we have all received from his fullness one gracious gift after another.

John 1:27

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

Acts 26:23

that the Christ was to suffer and be the first to rise from the dead, to proclaim light both to our people and to the Gentiles.”

Romans 8:29

because those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that his Son would be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters.

1 Corinthians 11:3

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

1 Corinthians 12:27

Now you are Christ’s body, and each of you is a member of it.

1 Corinthians 15:25

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

Ephesians 1:10

toward the administration of the fullness of the times, to head up all things in Christ – the things in heaven and the things on earth.

Ephesians 5:23

because the husband is the head of the wife as also Christ is the head of the church – he himself being the savior of the body.

Colossians 1:24

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and I fill up in my physical body – for the sake of his body, the church – what is lacking in the sufferings of Christ.

Colossians 2:19

He has not held fast to the head from whom the whole body, supported and knit together through its ligaments and sinews, grows with a growth that is from God.

1 John 1:1

This is what we proclaim to you: what was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we have looked at and our hands have touched (concerning the word of life –

Revelation 1:18

and the one who lives! I was dead, but look, now I am alive – forever and ever – and I hold the keys of death and of Hades!

Revelation 1:5

and from Jesus Christ – the faithful witness, the firstborn from among the dead, the ruler over the kings of the earth. To the one who loves us and has set us free from our sins at the cost of his own blood

Revelation 1:8

“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God – the one who is, and who was, and who is still to come – the All-Powerful!

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 Christ, and he will reign for ever and ever.”

Revelation 21:6

He also said to me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. To the one who is thirsty I will give water free of charge from the spring 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

“To the angel of the church in Laodicea write the following: “This is the solemn pronouncement of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the originator of God’s creation: