Colossians 1:17 Cross References - NSB

¹⁷ He is before all things, and through him all things originate.

⁸ »He raises the poor from the dust. He lifts up the needy from the dunghill to set them among the princes. He causes them to inherit a throne of glory (honor). The pillars of the earth are Jehovah’s. He sets the world on them.

³ The earth and all who dwell in it dissolve (melt) (become faint hearted). I have firmly set its pillars.

²² »Jehovah created me in the beginning of his way, before his works of antiquity. ²³ »I was made from long ago, before the earth began.

¹¹ »I ALONE AM JEHOVAH, AND THERE IS NO SAVIOR BESIDES ME.« ¹² »I have revealed it to you. I have saved you, and I have announced it to you. There was no foreign god among you. You are my witnesses that I am God, declares Jehovah. ¹³ »From the beginning I was the one who did this. No one can rescue people from my power. When I do something, who can undo it?«

⁶ »This is what Jehovah, Israel’s King and Redeemer, Jehovah of Hosts says: ‘I AM THE FIRST AND I AM THE LAST-APART FROM ME THERE IS NO GOD!

² »You Bethlehem Ephrathah who are little to be among the thousands of Judah. Out of you one will come to me who is to be ruler in Israel! His origin is from of old, from everlasting (days of antiquity) (ancient times).

¹ In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was like God (God-like). ² The same was in the beginning with God. ³ All things were made through him and without him not one thing was made.

¹⁷ Jesus responded to them: »My Father works until now and I work.« ¹⁸ The Jews intensified their efforts to kill him for these reasons: he broke the Sabbath and he also called God his own Father, making himself equal with God.

⁵⁸ Jesus said: »I tell you the truth, I existed before Abraham was born!« (Ex 3:14, 15)

⁵ »And now, Father, glorify me with you, the glory that I had with you before the world existed.

²⁸ »In him we live, and move, and have our existence. Your own poets have said: For we are also his offspring.

⁶ But to us there is but one God, the Father. All things come from him and we live for him. And there is one Lord Jesus Christ. All things were made through him and we were made through him.

¹⁵ He is the image (likeness) (representation) of the invisible God. He is the firstborn (Greek: prototokos: childbirth, offspring) of all creation.

³ God’s Son is the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his being. He sustains all things by his powerful word. After Jesus purged our sins, he sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high.

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

⁸ »I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end,« says Jehovah (YHWH) God, »the one who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty (all ruling) (universal sovereign).« (Isaiah 48:12)

¹¹ It said: »Write what you see in a book and send it to the seven congregations in Asia: to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea.«

¹⁷ When I saw him, I fell as dead at his feet. He laid his right hand on me and said: »Do not fear. I am the first and the last:

⁸ »To the angel of the congregation in Smyrna write: This is the message from the one who is the 'First and the Last', who died and came to life again.