Colossians 1:17 Cross References - BBE

¹⁷ He is before all things, and in him all things have being.

⁸ Lifting the poor out of the dust, and him who is in need out of the lowest place, to give them their place among rulers, and for their heritage the seat of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the Lord's and he has made them the base of the world.

³ When the earth and all its people become feeble, I am the support of its pillars. Selah.

²² The Lord made me as the start of his way, the first of his works in the past. ²³ From eternal days I was given my place, from the birth of time, before the earth was.

¹¹ I, even I, am the Lord; and there is no saviour but me. ¹² I gave the word, and made it clear, and there was no strange god among you: for this reason you are my witnesses, says the Lord. ¹³ From time long past I am God, and from this day I am he: there is no one who is able to take you out of my hand: when I undertake a thing, by whom will my purpose be changed?

⁶ The Lord, the King of Israel, even the Lord of armies who has taken up his cause, says, I am the first and the last, and there is no God but me.

² And you, Beth-lehem Ephrathah, the least among the families of Judah, out of you one will come to me who is to be ruler in Israel; whose going out has been purposed from time past, from the eternal days.

¹ From the first he was the Word, and the Word was in relation with God and was God. ² This Word was from the first in relation with God. ³ All things came into existence through him, and without him nothing was.

¹⁷ But his answer was: My Father is still working even now, and so I am working. ¹⁸ For this cause the Jews had an even greater desire to put Jesus to death, because not only did he not keep the Sabbath but he said God was his Father, so making himself equal with God.

⁵⁸ Jesus said to them, Truly I say to you, Before Abraham came into being, I am.

⁵ And now, Father, let me have glory with you, even that glory which I had with you before the world was.

²⁸ For in him we have life and motion and existence; as certain of your verse writers have said, For we are his offspring.

⁶ There is for us only one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we are for him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we have our being through him.

¹⁵ Who is the image of the unseen God coming into existence before all living things;

³ Who, being the outshining of his glory, the true image of his substance, supporting all things by the word of his power, having given himself as an offering making clean from sins, took his seat at the right hand of God in heaven;

⁸ Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and for ever.

⁸ I am the First and the Last, says the Lord God who is and was and is to come, the Ruler of all.

¹¹ Saying, What you see, put in a book, and send it to the seven churches; to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamos and to Thyatira and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to Laodicea.

¹⁷ And when I saw him, I went down on my face at his feet as one dead. And he put his right hand on me, saying, Have no fear; I am the first and the last and the Living one;

⁸ And to the angel of the church in Smyrna say: These things says the first and the last, who was dead and is living: