Colossians 1:17

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.

Cross References

Psalm 75:3

When the earth totters, and all its inhabitants, it is I who keep steady its pillars. Selah

Isaiah 44:6

Thus says the Lord, the King of Israel and his Redeemer, the Lord of hosts: “I am the first and I am the last; besides me there is no god.

Micah 5:2

But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, who are little to be among the clans of Judah, from you shall come forth for me one who is to be ruler in Israel, whose origin is from of old, from ancient days.

John 17:5

and now, Father, glorify thou me in thy own presence with the glory which I had with thee before the world was made.

John 8:58

Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am.”

Acts 17:28

for ‘In him we live and move and have our being’; as even some of your poets have said, ‘For we are indeed his offspring.’

1 Corinthians 8:6

yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we exist.

Colossians 1:15

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

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,

Hebrews 13:8

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

Revelation 1:11

saying, “Write what you see in a book and send it to the seven churches, to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamum and to Thyatira and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to La-odicea.”

Revelation 1:17

When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. But 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,” says the Lord God, who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.

Revelation 2:8

“And to the angel of the church in Smyrna write: ‘The words of the first and the last, who died and came to life.

1 Samuel 2:8

He raises up the poor from the dust; he lifts the needy from the ash heap, to make them sit with princes and inherit a seat of honor. For the pillars of the earth are the Lord's, and on them he has set the world.