Colossians 1:15

Bishops' Bible (1568)

Who is the image of the inuisible God, the first borne of all creatures.

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  • Heb 1:3 : 3 Who beyng the bryghtnesse of the glorie, and the very image of his substaunce, vpholdyng all thynges with the worde of his power, hauing by him selfe pourged our sinnes, hath syt on the ryght hande of the maiestie on hye:
  • John 14:9 : 9 Iesus sayth vnto hym: Haue I ben so long tyme with you, & yet hast thou not knowen me? Philip, he that hath seene me, hath seene the father. And howe sayest thou then, shewe vs the father?
  • 2 Cor 4:4 : 4 In whom the god of this worlde hath blinded the myndes of them whiche beleue not, lest the lyght of the Gospell of the glorie of Christe (which is the image of God) should shine vnto them.
  • John 1:14 : 14 And the same word became fleshe, and dwelt among vs ( and we sawe the glory of it, as the glory of the only begotten sonne of the father) full of grace and trueth.
  • John 1:18 : 18 No man hath seene God at any tyme: The onely begotten sonne which is in the bosome of the father, he hath declared hym.
  • John 1:1 : 1 In the begynnyng was the worde, & the worde was with God: and that worde was God.
  • Rev 3:14 : 14 And vnto the Angel of the Churche which is in Laodicea, write: This saith Amen, the faythfull and true witnesse, the begynnyng of the creatures of God.
  • Rom 8:29 : 29 For those which he knewe before, he also dyd predestinate, that they shoulde be lyke fashioned vnto the shape of his sonne, that he myght be ye first begotten among many brethren.
  • 1 Tim 1:17 : 17 Nowe, vnto the kyng euerlastyng, immortall, inuisible, vnto God onlye wise be honour and glorie for euer and euer, Amen.
  • 2 Cor 4:6 : 6 For it is God that commaundeth the lyght to shine out of darknesse, whiche hath shined in our heartes, for to geue the lyght of the knowledge of the glorie of God, in the face of Iesus Christe.
  • Phil 2:6 : 6 Who beyng in the fourme of God, thought it not robbery to be equall with God.
  • Ezek 1:26-28 : 26 And aboue the firmament that was ouer their heades, there was the fashion of a throne lyke a Saphir stone: and vpon the similitude of the throne by appearaunce, as the similitude of a man aboue vpon it. 27 And I sawe as the appearaunce of amber and as the similitude of fire rounde about within, from the appearaunce of his loynes vpward: and from the appearaunce of his loynes downewarde I sawe as the lykenesse of fire, and brightnesse rounde about it. 28 As the likenesse of a bowe that is in a cloude in a raynie day, so was the appearaunce of the brightnesse rounde about: this was the appearaunce of the similitude of the glory of God, & when I sawe it, I fell vpon my face and hearkened vnto the voyce of one that spake.
  • Ps 89:27 : 27 And I will make him my first borne: in higher state then kinges of the earth.
  • Prov 8:29-31 : 29 When he shut the sea within certaine boundes, that the waters should not go ouer their markes that he commaunded: when he layde the foundations of the earth, 30 I was with him ordring all thinges, deliting dayly and reioysyng alway before hym. 31 As for the rounde compasse of this worlde I make it ioyfull: for my delite is to be among the chyldren of men.
  • Col 1:13 : 13 Who hath delyuered vs from the power of darcknesse, and hath translated vs into the kingdome of his deare sonne.
  • Col 1:16-17 : 16 For by him were all thinges created, that are in heaue and that are in earth, visible and inuisible, whether they be maiestie or lordeshippe, either rule or power: All thynges were created by hym and for hym. 17 And he is before all thynges, and in hym all thynges consist.
  • 1 Tim 6:16 : 16 Who only hath immortalitie, dwelling in the light that no man can attayne vnto, Whom no man hath seene, neither can see, vnto whom be honour & power euerlastyng. Amen.
  • Heb 1:6 : 6 And agayne, I wyll be to hym a father, and he shalbe to me a sonne? And agayne, when he bryngeth in the first begotten sonne into the worlde, he saith: And let all the Angels of God worship hym.
  • Heb 11:27 : 27 By fayth he forsoke Egypt, fearyng not the wrath of the kyng: For he endured, euen as though he had seene him which is inuisible.
  • Exod 24:10 : 10 And they saw the God of Israel: and there was vnder his feete as it were a worke of a Saphire stone, & as it were the heauen when it is cleare.
  • John 3:16 : 16 For God so loued the worlde, that he gaue his only begotten sonne, that whosoeuer beleueth in hym, shoulde not perishe, but haue euerlastyng lyfe.
  • John 15:24 : 24 Yf I had not done among them, the workes which none other man dyd, they shoulde haue had no sinne. But nowe haue they both seene, and hated not only me, but also my father,

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Col 1:16-20
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    16 For by him were all thinges created, that are in heaue and that are in earth, visible and inuisible, whether they be maiestie or lordeshippe, either rule or power: All thynges were created by hym and for hym.

    17 And he is before all thynges, and in hym all thynges consist.

    18 And he is the head of the body of the Churche: he is the begynnyng, the first borne of the dead, that in all thynges he myght haue the preeminence.

    19 For it pleased the father that in hym shoulde all fulnesse dwell,

    20 And by hym to reconcile all thynges vnto hym selfe, & to set at peace through the blood of his crosse by hym, both the thynges in earth, and thynges in heauen,

  • John 1:1-4
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    1 In the begynnyng was the worde, & the worde was with God: and that worde was God.

    2 The same was in the begynnyng with God.

    3 All thynges were made by it: and without it, was made nothyng that was made.

    4 In it was lyfe, and the lyfe was the lyght of men,

  • Heb 1:1-3
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    1 God which in time past, at sundrie tymes, and in diuers maners, spake vnto the fathers in the prophetes:

    2 Hath in these last dayes, spoken vnto vs in the sonne, whom he hath appoynted heyre of all thynges, by whom also he made the worldes.

    3 Who beyng the bryghtnesse of the glorie, and the very image of his substaunce, vpholdyng all thynges with the worde of his power, hauing by him selfe pourged our sinnes, hath syt on the ryght hande of the maiestie on hye:

  • Eph 3:9-10
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    9 And to bring to lyght to all men what the felowship of the misterie is whiche from the begynnyng of the world hath ben hid in god, which made all thinges through Iesus Christe:

    10 To thintent that nowe vnto the rulers and power in heauenly thynges myght be knowen by ye Church, the very manyfolde wysedome of God:

  • 18 No man hath seene God at any tyme: The onely begotten sonne which is in the bosome of the father, he hath declared hym.

  • John 1:9-10
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    9 That lyght was the true lyght, which lyghteth euery man that commeth into the worlde.

    10 He was in the worlde, and the worlde was made by hym, and the worlde knewe hym not.

  • 9 For in hym dwelleth all the fulnesse of the Godhead bodyly:

  • Rom 1:19-20
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    19 For that that may be knowen of God, is manifest among them, because God hath shewed it vnto them.

    20 For his inuisible thinges, being vnderstanded by his workes, through the creation of the worlde, are seene, that is, both his eternall power and godhead: So that they are without excuse.

  • Col 1:13-14
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    13 Who hath delyuered vs from the power of darcknesse, and hath translated vs into the kingdome of his deare sonne.

    14 In who we haue redemptio through his blood, the forgeuenesse of sinnes:

  • 30 And of hym are ye in Christe Iesu, whiche of God is made vnto vs wisedome, and righteousnesse, and sanctification, and redemption:

  • John 1:14-15
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    14 And the same word became fleshe, and dwelt among vs ( and we sawe the glory of it, as the glory of the only begotten sonne of the father) full of grace and trueth.

    15 Iohn beareth witnesse of hym, and cryeth, saying: This was he of whom I spake, he that commeth after me, is preferred before me, for he was before me.

  • 1 John 1:1-2
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    1 That whiche was fro the beginning, whiche we haue heard, which we haue seene with our eyes, whiche we haue loked vpo, & our handes haue handeled of, the worde of lyfe:

    2 (And the lyfe appeared, and we haue seene, and beare witnesse, and shewe vnto you that eternall lyfe which was with the father, and appeared vnto vs.)

  • 20 Which was ordeyned beforehande, euen before the worlde was made, but was declared in the last tymes for your sakes:

  • Col 1:26-27
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    26 The misterie hyd sence the worlde began, and sence the begynnyng of generations: but nowe is opened to his saintes:

    27 To whom God woulde make knowe what is the riches of the glorie of this misterie among the gentiles, which is Christe in you, the hope of glorie:

  • 1 In the beginnyng GOD created ye heauen and the earth.

  • 6 Who beyng in the fourme of God, thought it not robbery to be equall with God.

  • Heb 1:5-6
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    5 For vnto which of the Angels sayde he at any tyme: Thou art my sonne, this day haue I begotten thee?

    6 And agayne, I wyll be to hym a father, and he shalbe to me a sonne? And agayne, when he bryngeth in the first begotten sonne into the worlde, he saith: And let all the Angels of God worship hym.

  • 3 Blessed be God, the father of our Lorde Iesus Christe, whiche hath blessed vs in all spirituall blessyng, in heauenly thynges by Christe:

  • 18 Of his owne wyll begat he vs with the worde of trueth, that we shoulde be the first fruites of his creatures.

  • Eph 1:19-21
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    19 And what is the exceedyng greatnesse of his power to vswarde, which beleue, accordyng to the workyng of his myghtie power,

    20 Which he wrought in Christe when he raysed hym from the dead, and set him on his ryght hande in heauenly places

    21 Farre aboue all rule, and power, and myght, and dominion, and euery name that is named, not in this worlde only, but also in the worlde to come.

  • 23 Which is his body, the fulnesse of him that fylleth all in all.

  • 5 And from Iesus Christe, which is a faythfull witnesse, and first begotten of the dead, and Lorde ouer the kynges of the earth: Unto hym that loued vs, and wasshed vs from our sinnes in his owne blood,

  • 29 For those which he knewe before, he also dyd predestinate, that they shoulde be lyke fashioned vnto the shape of his sonne, that he myght be ye first begotten among many brethren.

  • 6 Yet vnto vs is there but one God, which is the father, of whom are all thinges, and we in him, and one Lorde Iesus Christe, by whom are al thinges, and we by him.

  • 17 That the God of our Lorde Iesus Christe, the father of glorie, may geue vnto you the spirite of wisdome and reuelation, in the knowledge of hym:

  • 12 That we shoulde be vnto the prayse of his glorie, whiche before beleued in Christe.

  • 10 That in the dispensation of the fulnesse of the tymes, he myght gather together in one all thinges in Christe, both which are in heauen, and which are in earth, in hym.

  • 6 To the prayse of the glorie of his grace, wherein he hath made vs accepted in the beloued.

  • 15 Of who all the famyly in heauen and earth is named:

  • 3 In whom are hyd all the treasures of wisdome and knowledge.

  • 10 And thou Lorde, in the begynnyng hast layde the foundation of the earth: And the heauens are the workes of thy handes: