Colossians 1:18 Cross References - ACV

¹⁸ And he is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that he might become preeminent in all things.

² Thou are fairer than the sons of men. Grace is poured into thy lips. Therefore God has blessed thee forever. ³ Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O mighty one, thy glory and thy majesty. ⁴ And in thy majesty ride on prosperously because of truth and gentleness and righteousness. And thy right hand shall teach thee awesome things. ⁵ Thine arrows are sharp. The peoples fall under thee. They are in the heart of the king's enemies.

²⁷ I also will make him firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth.

¹⁰ My beloved is white and ruddy, the chief among ten thousand.

¹³ Behold, my servant shall deal wisely. He shall be exalted and lifted up, and shall be very high.

⁸ But be ye not designated Rabbi, for one is your leader, the Christ, and ye are all brothers.

¹⁸ And Jesus having come, he spoke to them, saying, All authority in heaven and on earth was given to me.

¹ In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

¹⁶ And from his fullness we all received, even grace for grace.

²⁷ He is the man who comes after me, who has become before me, of whom I am not worthy that I might loosen the strap of his shoe.

²⁹ He who has the bride is the bridegroom. But the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices with joy because of the bridegroom's voice. This therefore my joy is fulfilled. ³⁰ It is necessary for that man to increase, but me to decrease. ³¹ He who comes from above is above all things. He who is of the earth is of the earth, and speaks of the earth. He who comes from heaven is above all things.

³⁴ For he whom God sent speaks the sayings of God, for God does not give the Spirit by measure. ³⁵ The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into his hand.

²⁵ Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me, even though he died, he will live. ²⁶ And every man who lives and believes in me will, no, not die, into the age. Do thou believe this?

²³ that the suffering Christ, since first from a resurrection of the dead, is going to proclaim light to our people and to the nations.

²⁹ Because whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be of similar nature of the form of his Son, in order for him to be the firstborn son among many brothers.

³ But I want you to know that the head of every man is the Christ, and the head of a woman is the man, and the head of Christ is God.

²⁰ But now Christ has been raised from the dead. He became the first fruit of those who are asleep. ²¹ For since death is because of a man, the resurrection of the dead is also because of a man. ²² For as by Adam all die, so also by Christ all will be made alive. ²³ But each in his own order. Christ the first fruit, then those of Christ at his coming.

²⁵ For he must reign until he will put all his enemies under his feet.

¹⁰ for an administration of the fullness of the times. To gather together all things in the Christ, things in the heavens and things upon the earth,

²² And he subordinated all things under his feet, and appointed him head over all things for the church, ²³ which is his body, the fulfillment of him who fills all in all.

¹⁵ But being truthful in love, we may cause all things to grow for him who is the head-the Christ- ¹⁶ from whom the whole body, joined together and united together through every connection of the supply, according to the working of each one part within a standard, makes the growth of the body for the construction of itself by love.

²³ Because a husband is head of the wife, as also Christ is head of the church, and himself the savior of the body.

²⁴ I now rejoice in sufferings for you, and make complete in my flesh things lacking of the afflictions of the Christ for his body, which is the church.

¹⁰ And ye are men who have been made full in him, who is the head of every principal office and position of authority. ¹¹ In whom also ye were circumcised a circumcision not made with hands, in the removal of the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of the Christ. ¹² Having been buried with him in immersion, in which also ye were raised together through faith of the working of God, who raised him from the dead. ¹³ And you, being dead in transgressions and the uncircumcision of your flesh, you he made alive together with him, having forgiven us all the transgressions, ¹⁴ having erased the handwriting against us in the regulations that were hostile to us, and he has taken it up from the midst, having nailed it to the cross.

⁵ For to which of the agents did he ever say, Thou are my Son, today I have begotten thee? And again, I will be to him for a Father, and he will be to me for a Son? ⁶ And again when he brings the firstborn into the world he says, And let all the agents of God worship him.

¹ What was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we looked upon, and our hands touched, concerning the Word of life

⁵ and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us and washed us from our sins by his blood

⁸ I am the Alpha and the Omega, says the Lord, the God who is and who was and who is coming, the Almighty.

¹⁸ and he who lives. And I became dead, and behold, I am living into the ages of the ages. Truly. And I have the keys of death and of Hades.

¹⁴ And to the agent of the congregation in Laodicea write, These things says the Truly, the faithful and true witness, the primacy of the creation of God:

⁹ And they sing a new song, saying, Thou are worthy to take the book and to open the seals of it, because thou were killed and purchased us from God by thy blood, out of every tribe, and tongue, and people, and nation. ¹⁰ And thou made them kings and priests to our God, and they will reign over the earth. ¹¹ And I looked, and I heard as a voice of many agents all around the throne and the living creatures and the elders. And the number of them was ten thousands of ten thousands, and thousands of thousands, ¹² saying with a great voice, Worthy is the Lamb that has been killed to receive the power, and wealth, and wisdom, and strength, and honor, and glory, and blessing! ¹³ And every creature that is in the heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and is in the sea, and things in them all, I heard saying, The blessing, and the honor, and the glory, and the dominion is to him who sits upon the throne, and to the Lamb, into the ages of the ages. Truly!

¹⁵ And the seventh agent sounded, and great voices occurred in heaven, saying, The kingdom of the world has become of our Lord, and of his Christ, and he will reign into the ages of the ages.

⁶ And he said to me, I have become, I, the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give to him who is thirsty of the fountain of the water of life freely.

²³ And the city has no need of the sun, nor of the moon, so that they might shine in it, for the glory of God illuminated it, and the light of it is the Lamb. ²⁴ And the nations will walk by the light of it. And the kings of the earth bring to them the splendor and worth of the nations into it.

¹³ -I, the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.