Colossians 1:15-17

The Preeminence of Christ

¹⁵ He is _d the image of the invisible God, _e the firstborn over all creation. ¹⁶ For _f by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or _g dominions or ₁ principalities or ₂ powers. All things were created _h through Him and for Him. ¹⁷ _i And He is before all things, and in Him _j all things consist.

1. Cross References
   2 Corinthians 4:4
   Whose minds the god of this age has blinded, who do not believe, lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them.
   Hebrews 1:3
   Who being the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person, 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.
   
2. Cross References
   Psalms 89:27
   Also I will make him My firstborn, The highest of the kings of the earth.
   Revelation 3:14
   And to the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write, 'These things says the Amen, the Faithful and True Witness, the Beginning of the creation of God:
   
3. Cross References
   John 1:3
   All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made.
   Hebrews 1:2
   Has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds.
   Hebrews 1:3
   Who being the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person, 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.
   
4. Cross References
   Ephesians 1:20
   Which He worked in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places.
   Ephesians 1:21
   Far above all principality and power and might and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in that which is to come.
   Colossians 2:15
   Having disarmed principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it.
   
5. Cross References
   John 1:3
   All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made.
   Romans 11:36
   For of Him and through Him and to Him are all things, to whom be glory forever. Amen.
   1 Corinthians 8:6
   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.
   Hebrews 2:10
   For it was fitting for Him, for whom are all things and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons to glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.
   
6. Cross References
   John 17:5
   And now, O Father, glorify Me together with Yourself, with the glory which I had with You before the world was.
   
7. Cross References
   Hebrews 1:3
   Who being the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person, 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.