Colossians 1:9-23
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Preeminence of Christ
9 (A)For this reason we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to ask (B)that you may be filled with (C)the knowledge of His will (D)in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; 10 (E)that you may walk worthy of the Lord, (F)fully pleasing Him, (G)being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the (H)knowledge of God; 11 (I)strengthened with all might, according to His glorious power, (J)for all patience and longsuffering (K)with joy; 12 (L)giving thanks to the Father who has qualified us to be partakers of (M)the inheritance of the saints in the light. 13 He has delivered us from (N)the power of darkness (O)and [a]conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love, 14 (P)in whom we have redemption [b]through His blood, the forgiveness of sins.
15 He is (Q)the image of the invisible God, (R)the firstborn over all creation. 16 For (S)by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or (T)dominions or [c]principalities or [d]powers. All things were created (U)through Him and for Him. 17 (V)And He is before all things, and in Him (W)all things consist. 18 And (X)He is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, (Y)the firstborn from the dead, that in all things He may have the preeminence.
Reconciled in Christ
19 For it pleased the Father that (Z)in Him all the fullness should dwell, 20 and (AA)by Him to reconcile (AB)all things to Himself, by Him, whether things on earth or things in heaven, (AC)having made peace through the blood of His cross.
21 And you, (AD)who once were alienated and enemies in your mind (AE)by wicked works, yet now He has (AF)reconciled 22 (AG)in the body of His flesh through death, (AH)to present you holy, and blameless, and above reproach in His sight— 23 if indeed you continue (AI)in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and are (AJ)not moved away from the hope of the gospel which you heard, (AK)which was preached to every creature under heaven, (AL)of which I, Paul, became a minister.
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- Colossians 1:13 transferred
- Colossians 1:14 NU, M omit through His blood
- Colossians 1:16 rulers
- Colossians 1:16 authorities
Colossians 2:9
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9 For (A)in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead [a]bodily;
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- Colossians 2:9 in bodily form
Deuteronomy 21:15-17
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Firstborn Inheritance Rights
15 “If a man has two wives, one loved (A)and the other unloved, and they have borne him children, both the loved and the unloved, and if the firstborn son is of her who is unloved, 16 then it shall be, (B)on the day he bequeaths his possessions to his sons, that he must not bestow firstborn status on the son of the loved wife in preference to the son of the unloved, the true firstborn. 17 But he shall acknowledge the son of the unloved wife as the firstborn (C)by giving him a double portion of all that he has, for he (D)is the beginning of his strength; (E)the right of the firstborn is his.
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Psalm 89:27
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Romans 14:5-6
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5 (A)One person esteems one day above another; another esteems every day alike. Let each be fully convinced in his own mind. 6 He who (B)observes the day, observes it to the Lord; [a]and he who does not observe the day, to the Lord he does not observe it. He who eats, eats to the Lord, for (C)he gives God thanks; and he who does not eat, to the Lord he does not eat, and gives God thanks.
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- Romans 14:6 NU omits the rest of this sentence.
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