Colossians 1:17

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Καὶ αὐτός ἐστιν πρὸ πάντων, καὶ τὰ πάντα ἐν αὐτῷ συνέστηκεν.

Transliteration

And he estin before pantōn, and the panta in him synestēken.

Grammar Details

• *estin*: present, active, indicative, 3rd person singular - is
• *pantōn*: genitive, neuter, plural - all things, comparison
• *panta*: nominative, neuter, plural - all things, subject
• *synestēken*: perfect, active, indicative, 3rd person singular - hold together

Word Meanings

• *pantōn*: all things/everything
• *panta*: all things/everything
• *synestēken*: hold together/cohere/consist/continue

Referenced Verses

• 1 Cor 8:6 : 6 But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.
• John 8:58 : 58 Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am.
• Rev 1:8 : 8 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.
• Col 1:15 : 15 Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:
• Heb 1:3 : 3 Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
• Prov 8:22-23 : 22 The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old. 23 I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was.
• Isa 44:6 : 6 Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel, and his redeemer the LORD of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God.
• John 1:1-3 : 1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 The same was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
• Isa 43:11-13 : 11 I, even I, am the LORD; and beside me there is no saviour. 12 I have declared, and have saved, and I have shewed, when there was no strange god among you: therefore ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, that I am God. 13 Yea, before the day was I am he; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who shall let it?
• John 17:5 : 5 And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.
• Acts 17:28 : 28 For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.
• Rev 1:17 : 17 And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I am the first and the last:
• Heb 13:8 : 8 Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.
• Ps 75:3 : 3 The earth and all the inhabitants{H8802)} thereof are dissolved{H8737)}: I bear up{H8765)} the pillars of it. Selah.
• Mic 5:2 : 2 But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.
• 1 Sam 2:8 : 8 He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the LORD'S, and he hath set the world upon them.
• John 5:17-18 : 17 But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work. 18 Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God.
• Rev 1:11 : 11 Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and, What thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the seven churches which are in Asia; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea.
• Rev 2:8 : 8 And unto the angel of the church in Smyrna write; These things saith the first and the last, which was dead, and is alive;