Colossians 1:17
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17 He himself is before all things, and in[a] him all things hold together.
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Hebrews 1:3
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3 He is the reflection of God’s glory and the exact imprint of God’s very being, and he sustains[a] all things by his powerful word. When he had made purification for[b] sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,(A)
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1 Corinthians 8:6
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6 yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we exist.(A)
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John 8:58
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58 Jesus said to them, “Very truly, I tell you, before Abraham was, I am.”(A)
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John 17:5
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5 So now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had in your presence before the world existed.(A)
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John 1:1-3
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The Word Became Flesh
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.(A) 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things came into being through him, and without him not one thing came into being. What has come into being(B)
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Revelation 1:8
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8 “I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.(A)
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Colossians 1:15
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The Supremacy of Christ
15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation,(A)
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Acts 17:28
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28 For ‘In him we live and move and have our being’; as even some of your own poets have said,
‘For we, too, are his offspring.’(A)
Revelation 1:17
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17 When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. But he placed his right hand on me, saying, “Do not be afraid; I am the First and the Last(A)
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Isaiah 44:6
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6 Thus says the Lord, the King of Israel,
and his Redeemer, the Lord of hosts:
I am the first, and I am the last;
besides me there is no god.(A)
Isaiah 43:11-13
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11 I, I am the Lord,
and besides me there is no savior.(A)
12 I am the one who declared and saved and proclaimed,
not some strange god among you;
you are my witnesses, says the Lord, and I am God.(B)
13 Indeed, since that day I am he;
there is no one who can deliver from my hand;
I work, and who can hinder it?(C)
Proverbs 8:22-23
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Revelation 2:8
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The Message to Smyrna
8 “And to the angel of the church in Smyrna write: These are the words of the First and the Last, who was dead and came to life:(A)
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Hebrews 13:8
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8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.
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Micah 5:2
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The Ruler from Bethlehem
2 [a]But you, O Bethlehem of Ephrathah,
who are one of the little clans of Judah,
from you shall come forth for me
one who is to rule in Israel,
whose origin is from of old,
from ancient days.(A)
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Psalm 75:3
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3 When the earth totters, with all its inhabitants,
it is I who keep its pillars steady. Selah
1 Samuel 2:8
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8 He raises up the poor from the dust;
he lifts the needy from the ash heap
to make them sit with princes
and inherit a seat of honor.
For the pillars of the earth are the Lord’s,
and on them he has set the world.(A)
John 5:17-18
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17 But Jesus answered them, “My Father is still working, and I also am working.”(A) 18 For this reason the Jews were seeking all the more to kill him, because he was not only breaking the Sabbath but was also calling God his own Father, thereby making himself equal to God.(B)
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Revelation 1:11
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11 saying, “Write in a book what you see, and send it to the seven churches, to Ephesus, to Smyrna, to Pergamum, to Thyatira, to Sardis, to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.”
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