Colossians 1:16-18

16because by him were created all things, the things in the heavens and the things upon the earth, the visible and the invisible, whether thrones, or lordships, or principalities, or authorities: all things have been created by him and for him.

17And he is before all, and all things subsist together by him.

18And he is the head of the body, the assembly; who is [the] beginning, firstborn from among the dead, that he might have the first place in all things: