^7 (A)If you had known me, you would have ^(B)known my Father also.^[a] From now on you do know him and ^(C)have seen him.”

The Preeminence of Christ

^15 (A)He is the image of ^(B)the invisible God, ^(C)the firstborn of all creation. ¹⁶ For by^[a] him all things were created, ^(D)in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether ^(E)thrones or ^(F)dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created ^(G)through him and for him. ¹⁷ And ^(H)he is before all things, and in him all things ^(I)hold together.

¹⁹ They said to him therefore, “Where is your Father?” Jesus answered, ^(A)“You know neither me nor my Father. ^(B)If you knew me, you would know my Father also.”

^22 (A)All things have been handed over to me by my Father, and no one knows who the Son is ^(B)except the Father, or who the Father is ^(C)except the Son and anyone ^(D)to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.”

⁸ For I have given them ^(A)the words that you gave me, and they have received them and have come to know in truth that ^(B)I came from you; and ^(C)they have believed that you sent me.

^6 (A)“I have manifested your name to the people ^(B)whom you gave me out of the world. ^(C)Yours they were, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word.

² that ^(A)their hearts may be encouraged, being ^(B)knit together in love, to reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of ^(C)God's mystery, which is Christ, ^3 (D)in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

^26 (A)I made known to them your name, and I will continue to make it known, that the love ^(B)with which you have loved me may be in them, and ^(C)I in them.”