Colossians 1:17

The Passion Translation

He existed before anything was made, and now everything finds completion in him.

Cross References

Psalm 75:3

Though I have set the earth firmly on its pillars, I will shake it until it totters, and everyone’s hearts will tremble.” Pause in his presence

Isaiah 44:6

The words of Yahweh, Israel’s true King and Kinsman-Redeemer, Yahweh, Commander of Angel Armies, says: “I am the Beginning and I am the Ending, and I am the only God there is.

John 17:5

So my Father, restore me back to the glory that we shared together when we were face-to-face before the universe was created.”

John 8:58

Jesus said to them, “I give you this eternal truth: I have existed long before Abraham was born, for I AM!”

Acts 17:28

It is through him that we live and function and have our identity; just as your own poets have said, ‘Our lineage comes from him.’

1 Corinthians 8:6

yet for us there is only one God—the Father. Out of him is all things, and our lives are lived for him. And there is one Lord, Jesus, the Anointed One, through whom we and all things exist.

Colossians 1:15

He is the divine portrait, the true likeness of the invisible God, and the firstborn heir of all creation.

Hebrews 1:3

The Son is the dazzling radiance of God’s splendor, the exact expression of God’s true nature—his mirror image! He holds the universe together and expands it by the mighty power of his spoken word. He accomplished for us the complete cleansing of sins, and then took his seat on the highest throne at the right hand of the majestic One.

Hebrews 13:8

Jesus, the Anointed One, is always the same—yesterday, today, and forever.

Revelation 1:11

saying to me: Write in a book what you see and send it to the seven churches: to Ephesus, to Smyrna, to Pergamum, to Thyatira, to Sardis, to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.

Revelation 1:17

When I saw him, I fell down at his feet as good as dead, but he laid his right hand on me and I heard his reassuring voice saying: Don’t yield to fear. I am the Beginning and I am the End,

Revelation 1:8

“I am the Aleph and the Tav, the beginning and the ending,” says the Lord God, “who is, who was, and who is to come, the Almighty.”

Revelation 2:8

Write the following to the messenger of the congregation in Smyrna. For these are the words of the one who is the Beginning and the End, the one who became a corpse, but came back to life: