Colossians 1:17
Colossians chapter 1 · verse 17 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000and he is before all things, and in him all things consist.
KJV
King James Version · 1611And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901and he is before all things, and in him all things consist.
Context
v.16for in him were all things created, in the heavens and upon the earth, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers; all things have been created through him, and unto him;
v.17This passage
v.18And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Revelation 1:17
And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as one dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying, Fear not; I am the first and the last,
- Hebrews 1:3
who being the effulgence of his glory, and the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had made purification of sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
- Micah 5:2
But thou, Beth-lehem Ephrathah, which art little to be among the thousands of Judah, out of thee shall one come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth are from of old, from everlasting.
- John 17:5
And now, Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.
- 1 Samuel 2:8
He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, He lifteth up the needy from the dunghill, To make them sit with princes, And inherit the throne of glory: For the pillars of the earth are Jehovah’s, And he hath set the world upon them.
- Acts 17:28
for in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain even of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.