Colossians 1:17 Cross References - Goodspeed

¹⁷ He existed before all things and he sustains and embraces them all.

¹ In the beginning the Word existed. The Word was with God, and the Word was divine. ² It was he that was with God in the beginning. ³ Everything came into existence through him, and apart from him nothing came to be.

¹⁷ But he answered them, "My Father is still at work, and I work too." ¹⁸ On account of this the Jews were all the more eager to kill him, because he not only broke the Sabbath but actually called God his Father, thus putting himself on an equality with God.

⁵⁸ Jesus said to them, "I tell you, I existed before Abraham was born!"

⁵ Now, Father, do such honor to me in your presence as I had done me there before the world existed.

²⁸ For it is through union with him that we live and move and exist, as some of your poets have said, " 'For we are also his offspring.'

⁶ yet for us there is just one God, the Father, who is the source of all things, and for whom we live, and just one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom everything was made and through whom we live.

¹⁵ He is a likeness of the unseen God, born before any creature,

³ He is the reflection of God's glory, and the representation of his being, and bears up the universe by his mighty word. He has effected man's purification from sin, and has taken his seat on high at the right hand of God's Majesty,

⁸ Jesus Christ is the same today that he was yesterday, and he will be so forever.

⁸ "I am the Alpha and the Omega." says the Lord God, who is and was and is coming, the Almighty.

¹¹ say, "Write what you see in a roll and send it to the seven churches—to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea."

¹⁷ When I saw him, I fell at his feet like a dead man. But he laid his right hand upon me, and said, "Do not be afraid. I am the first and the last,

⁸ "To the angel of the church in Smyrna write: " 'The first and the last, who died and came to life again, speaks thus: