Colossians 1:17 Cross References
Colossians 1:17
17: He existed before everything else began, and he holds all creation together.
Hebrews 1:3
- The Son reflects God's own glory, and everything about him represents God exactly. He sustains the universe by the mighty power of his command. After he died to cleanse us from the stain of sin, he sat down in the place of honor at the right hand of the majestic God of heaven.
1 Corinthians 8:6
- But we know that there is only one God, the Father, who created everything, and we exist for him. And there is only one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom God made everything and through whom we have been given life.
John 8:58
- Jesus answered, "The truth is, I existed before Abraham was even born!"
John 17:5
- And now, Father, bring me into the glory we shared before the world began.
John 1:1
- In the beginning the Word already existed. He was with God, and he was God.
- He was in the beginning with God.
- He created everything there is. Nothing exists that he didn't make.
Revelation 1:8
- "I am the Alpha and the Omega--the beginning and the end," says the Lord God. "I am the one who is, who always was, and who is still to come, the Almighty One."
Acts 17:28
- For in him we live and move and exist. As one of your own poets says, 'We are his offspring.'
Colossians 1:15
- Christ is the visible image of the invisible God. He existed before God made anything at all and is supreme over all creation.
Isaiah 44:6
- "This is what the LORD, Israel's King and Redeemer, the LORD Almighty, says: I am the First and the Last; there is no other God.
Revelation 1:17
- When I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. But he laid his right hand on me and said, "Don't be afraid! I am the First and the Last.
Isaiah 43:11
- I am the LORD, and there is no other Savior.
- First I predicted your deliverance; I declared what I would do, and then I did it--I saved you. No foreign god has ever done this before. You are witnesses that I am the only God," says the LORD.
- "From eternity to eternity I am God. No one can oppose what I do. No one can reverse my actions."
Proverbs 8:22
- "The LORD formed me from the beginning, before he created anything else.
- I was appointed in ages past, at the very first, before the earth began.
Revelation 2:8
- "Write this letter to the angel of the church in Smyrna. This is the message from the one who is the First and the Last, who died and is alive:
Hebrews 13:8
- Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
Psalms 75:3
- When the earth quakes and its people live in turmoil, I am the one who keeps its foundations firm.
Micah 5:2
- But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, are only a small village in Judah. Yet a ruler of Israel will come from you, one whose origins are from the distant past.
1 Samuel 2:8
- He lifts the poor from the dust--yes, from a pile of ashes! He treats them like princes, placing them in seats of honor. "For all the earth is the LORD's, and he has set the world in order.
John 5:17
- But Jesus replied, "My Father never stops working, so why should I?"
- So the Jewish leaders tried all the more to kill him. In addition to disobeying the Sabbath rules, he had spoken of God as his Father, thereby making himself equal with God.
Revelation 1:11
- It said, "Write down what you see, and send it to the seven churches: Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea."