Colossians 1:17
15 The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.
16 For in Him all things were created, things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities. All things were created through Him and for Him.
He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together.
18 And He is the head of the body, the church; He is the beginning and firstborn from among the dead, so that in all things He may have preeminence.
19 For God was pleased to have all His fullness dwell in Him,
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Sammenlign
- ÅB
- og han er før alle ting, og alle ting står ved ham.
- OTB
- Han eksisterte før alle ting, og ved ham holdes alle ting sammen.
- B1930
- og han er før alle ting, og alle ting står ved ham.
- BSB
- He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together.
- KJV
- And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.
- WEB
- He is before all things, and in him all things are held together.
- ASV
- and he is before all things, and in him all things consist.
- DARBY
- And *he* is before all, and all things subsist together by him.
- BLB
- And He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together.
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Hebrews 1:3
The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of His nature, upholding all things by His powerful word. After He had provided purification for sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.
Les i sammenheng1 Corinthians 8:6
yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came and for whom we exist. And there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things came and through whom we exist.
Les i sammenhengJohn 17:5
And now, Father, glorify Me in Your presence with the glory I had with You before the world existed.
Les i sammenhengJohn 8:58
“Truly, truly, I tell you,” Jesus declared, “before Abraham was born, I am!”
Les i sammenhengJohn 1:1–3
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Les i sammenhengActs 17:28
‘For in Him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are His offspring.’
Les i sammenhengPsalms 75:3
When the earth and all its dwellers quake, it is I who bear up its pillars. Selah
Les i sammenhengRevelation 1:8
“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, who is and was and is to come—the Almighty.
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