Verse 17

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

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  • 1 Cor 8:6 : 6 Yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things, and we for Him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and through Him we live.
  • John 8:58 : 58 Jesus said to them, Verily, verily, I say to you, Before Abraham was, I am.
  • Col 1:15 : 15 Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation:
  • Heb 1:3 : 3 Who being the brightness of His glory, and the exact 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;
  • Rev 1:8 : 8 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, says the Lord, who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty.
  • Isa 44:6 : 6 Thus says the LORD the King of Israel, and his redeemer the LORD of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and besides me there is no God.
  • Prov 8:22-23 : 22 The LORD possessed me at the beginning of his way, before his works of old. 23 I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, before the earth was.
  • Isa 43:11-13 : 11 I, even I, am the LORD; and beside Me, there is no savior. 12 I have declared, and have saved, and I have shown, when there was no strange god among you: therefore you are My witnesses, says the LORD, that I am God. 13 Yes, before the day was, I am He; and there is none who can deliver out of My hand: I will work, and who shall hinder it?
  • John 17:5 : 5 And now, O Father, glorify me with your own self with the glory which I had with you before the world was.
  • Acts 17:28 : 28 For in Him we live, and move, and have our being; as also some of your own poets have said, For we are His offspring.
  • Rev 1:17 : 17 And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand on me, saying to me, Do not be afraid; I am the first and the last:
  • 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 through him, and without him nothing was made that was made.
  • Heb 13:8 : 8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
  • Mic 5:2 : 2 But you, Bethlehem Ephratah, though you are little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of you shall come forth to me the one who is to be ruler in Israel; whose origins have been from of old, from everlasting.
  • Ps 75:3 : 3 The earth and all its inhabitants dissolve; I bear up its pillars. Selah.
  • 1 Sam 2:8 : 8 He raises up the poor from the dust, and lifts up the needy from the ashes, 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 has set the world upon them.
  • Rev 2:8 : 8 And to the angel of the church in Smyrna write: These things says the First and the Last, who was dead, and came to life;
  • Rev 1:11 : 11 Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and, What you see, write in a book, and send it to the seven churches which are in Asia; to Ephesus, and to Smyrna, and to Pergamos, and to Thyatira, and to Sardis, and to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.