Colossians 1:17

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

Cross References (19)

  • Hebrews 1:3 (48)

    The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of His nature, upholding all things by His powerful

  • 1 Corinthians 8:6 (40)

    yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came and for whom we exist. And there is but one Lord,

  • John 1:1–3 (21)

    In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

  • John 17:5 (21)

    And now, Father, glorify Me in Your presence with the glory I had with You before the world existed.

  • John 8:58 (21)

    “Truly, truly, I tell you,” Jesus declared, “before Abraham was born, I am!”

  • Acts 17:28 (21)

    ‘For in Him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are His offspring.’

  • Psalms 75:3 (16)

    When the earth and all its dwellers quake, it is I who bear up its pillars. Selah

  • Revelation 1:8 (16)

    “I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, who is and was and is to come—the Almighty.

  • Colossians 1:15 (16)

    The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.

  • Isaiah 44:6 (15)

    Thus says the LORD, the King and Redeemer of Israel, the LORD of Hosts: “I am the first and I am the last, and there is

  • Proverbs 8:22–23 (15)

    The LORD created me as His first course, before His works of old.

  • Isaiah 43:11–13 (14)

    I, yes I, am the LORD, and there is no Savior but Me.

  • Revelation 1:17 (14)

    When I saw Him, I fell at His feet like a dead man. But He placed His right hand on me and said, “Do not be afraid. I am

  • Hebrews 13:8 (12)

    Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.

  • Revelation 2:8 (9)

    To the angel of the church in Smyrna write: These are the words of the First and the Last, who died and returned to life

  • Micah 5:2 (8)

    But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, who are small among the clans of Judah, out of you will come forth for Me One to be ruler

  • 1 Samuel 2:8 (8)

    He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap. He seats them among princes and bestows on them

  • John 5:17–18 (6)

    But Jesus answered them, “To this very day My Father is at His work, and I too am working.”

  • Revelation 1:11 (1)

    saying, “Write on a scroll what you see and send it to the seven churches: to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardi