Colossians 1:18

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

He is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning, the first-born from the dead, that in everything he might be pre-eminent.

Cross References

Psalm 89:27

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

Song of Solomon 5:10

My beloved is all radiant and ruddy, distinguished among ten thousand.

Isaiah 52:13

Behold, my servant shall prosper, he shall be exalted and lifted up, and shall be very high.

Matthew 23:8

But you are not to be called rabbi, for you have one teacher, and you are all brethren.

Matthew 28:18

And Jesus came 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 God.

John 1:16

And from his fulness have we all received, grace upon grace.

John 1:27

even he who comes after me, the thong of whose sandal I am not worthy to untie.”

Acts 26:23

that the Christ must suffer, and that, by being the first to rise from the dead, he would proclaim light both to the people and to the Gentiles.”

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 Corinthians 11:3

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

1 Corinthians 12:27

Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it.

1 Corinthians 15:25

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

Ephesians 1:10

as a plan for the fulness of time, to unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth.

Ephesians 5:23

For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior.

Colossians 1:24

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I complete what is lacking in Christ's afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the church,

Colossians 2:19

and not holding fast to the Head, from whom the whole body, nourished and knit together through its joints and ligaments, grows with a growth that is from God.

1 John 1:1

That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon and touched with our hands, concerning the word of life—

Revelation 1:18

and the living one; I died, and behold I am alive for evermore, and I have the keys of Death and Hades.

Revelation 1:5

and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the first-born of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood

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 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 shall reign for ever and ever.”

Revelation 21:6

And he said to me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. To the thirsty I will give from the fountain of the water of life without payment.

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