Colossians 1:17 Cross References - CAB

¹⁷ And He is before all things, and in Him all things are held together.

⁸ He lifts up the poor from the earth, and raises the needy from the dunghill; to seat him with the princes of the people, and causing them to inherit the throne of glory;

³ The earth is dissolved, and all that dwell in it; I have strengthened its pillars. Pause.

²² The Lord made me the beginning of His ways for His works. ²³ He established me in the beginning, before time was, before He made the earth.

¹¹ I am God; and beside Me there is no savior. ¹² I have declared, and have saved; I have reproached, and there was no strange god among you; you are My witnesses, and I am the Lord God, ¹³ even from the beginning; and there is none that can deliver out of My hands; I will work, and who shall turn it back?

⁶ Thus says God the King of Israel, and the God of hosts that delivered him; I am the First and I am the Last; beside Me there is no God.

² And you, Bethlehem, house of Ephratha, are few in number to be reckoned among the thousands of Judah; yet out of you shall one come forth to Me, to be a ruler of Israel; and His goings forth were from the beginning, even from eternity.

¹ In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. ² He was in the beginning with God. ³ All things came to be through Him, and without Him nothing came to be which has come to be.

¹⁷ But Jesus answered them, "My Father has been working until now, and I am working." ¹⁸ Because of this the Jews were seeking all the more to kill Him, because not only was He breaking the Sabbath, but also He called God His own Father, making Himself equal with God.

⁵⁸ Jesus said to them, "Most assuredly I say to you, before Abraham was, I AM."

⁵ And now, O Father, glorify Me alongside Yourself, with the glory which I had with You before the world was.

²⁸ for in Him we live and move and have our being, as also some of your own poets have said, 'For we are also His offspring.'

⁶ yet for us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we for Him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and through whom we live.

¹⁵ He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation,

³ who being the effulgence of His glory and the exact expression of His substance, and upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,

⁸ Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

⁸ "I am the Alpha and the Omega," says the Lord God, "He who is and He who was and He who is to come, The Almighty."

¹¹ saying, "That which you see, write in a book and send to the seven churches: to Ephesus, to Smyrna, to Pergamos, to Thyatira, to Sardis, to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea."

¹⁷ And when I saw Him, I fell at His feet as if dead. But He put His right hand on me, saying, "Do not fear; I am the First and the Last.

⁸ "And to the angel of the church in Smyrna write, 'These things says the First and the Last, who became dead, and came to life: