Colossians 1:17

Prayer For Maturity Based On Christ's Preeminence

¹⁶ For everything was created by Him,
in heaven and on earth,
the visible and the invisible,
whether thrones or dominions
or rulers or authorities—
all things have been created through Him and for Him.
¹⁷ He is before all things,
and by Him all things hold together.
¹⁸ He is also the head of the body, the church;
He is the beginning,
the firstborn from the dead,
so that He might come to have
first place in everything.

All Things

Created Through Him

John 8:58

Jesus said to them, “I assure you: Before Abraham was, I am.”

1 Corinthians 8:6

yet for us there is one God, the Father.
All things are from Him,
and we exist for Him.
And there is one Lord, Jesus Christ.
All things are through Him,
and we exist through Him.

Hebrews 1:3

The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact expression of His nature, sustaining all things by His powerful word. After making purification for sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.

Revelation 1:8

“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “the One who is, who was, and who is coming, the Almighty.”

Revelation 1:17

When I saw Him, I fell at His feet like a dead man. He laid His right hand on me and said, “Don’t be afraid! I am the First and the Last,

1 Samuel 2:8

He raises the poor from the dust
and lifts the needy from the garbage pile.
He seats them with noblemen
and gives them a throne of honor.
For the foundations of the earth are the Lord’s;
He has set the world on them.

Psalm 75:3

When the earth and all its inhabitants shake,
I am the One who steadies its pillars.Selah

Proverbs 8:22-23

“The Lord made me
at the beginning of His creation,
before His works of long ago.

Isaiah 43:11-13

I, I am Yahweh,
and there is no other Savior but Me.

Isaiah 44:6

This is what the Lord, the King of Israel and its Redeemer, the Lord of Hosts, says:

I am the first and I am the last.
There is no God but Me.

Micah 5:2

Bethlehem Ephrathah,
you are small among the clans of Judah;
One will come from you
to be ruler over Israel for Me.
His origin is from antiquity,
from eternity.

John 1:1-3

In the beginning was the Word,
and the Word was with God,
and the Word was God.

John 5:17-18

But Jesus responded to them, “My Father is still working, and I am working also.”

John 17:5

Now, Father, glorify Me in Your presence
with that glory I had with You
before the world existed.

Acts 17:28

For in Him we live and move and exist, as even some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also His offspring.’

Colossians 1:15

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

Hebrews 13:8

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

Revelation 1:11

saying, “Write on a scroll what you see and send it to the seven churches: Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea.”

Revelation 2:8

“Write to the angel of the church in Smyrna:

“The First and the Last, the One who was dead and came to life, says: