New American Standard Bible 1995

Colossians 1:15-20

15 1He is the 2image of the 3invisible God, the 4firstborn of all creation. 16For 5 6by Him all things were created, 7both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether 8thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities--9all things have been created through Him and for Him. 17He 10 11is before all things, and in Him all things 12hold together. 18He is also 13head of 14the body, the church; and He is 15the beginning, 16the firstborn from the dead, so that He Himself will come to have first place in everything. 19For 17it was 18the Father’s good pleasure for all 19the 20fullness to dwell in Him, 20and through Him to 21reconcile all things to Himself, having made 22peace through 23the blood of His cross; through Him, I say, 24whether things on earth or things in 25heaven.

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1. Colossians 1:15 Lit Who is ↩
2. Colossians 1:15 2 Cor 4:4 ↩
3. Colossians 1:15 John 1:1 ↩
4. Colossians 1:15 Rom 8:29 ↩
5. Colossians 1:16 Or in ↩
6. Colossians 1:16 Eph 1:10 ↩
7. Colossians 1:16 Eph 1:10 ↩
8. Colossians 1:16 Eph 1:20f; Col 2:15 ↩
9. Colossians 1:16 John 1:3; Rom 11:36; 1 Cor 8:6 ↩
10. Colossians 1:17 Or has existed prior to ↩
11. Colossians 1:17 John 1:1; 8:58 ↩
12. Colossians 1:17 Or endure ↩
13. Colossians 1:18 Eph 1:22 ↩
14. Colossians 1:18 Eph 1:23; Col 1:24; 2:19 ↩
15. Colossians 1:18 Rev 3:14 ↩
16. Colossians 1:18 Acts 26:23 ↩
17. Colossians 1:19 Or all the fullness was pleased to dwell ↩
18. Colossians 1:19 Eph 1:5 ↩
19. Colossians 1:19 John 1:16 ↩
20. Colossians 1:19 I.e. fullness of deity ↩
21. Colossians 1:20 2 Cor 5:18; Eph 2:16 ↩
22. Colossians 1:20 Rom 5:1; Eph 2:14 ↩
23. Colossians 1:20 Eph 2:13 ↩
24. Colossians 1:20 Col 1:16 ↩
25. Colossians 1:20 Lit the heavens ↩

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