Colossians 1:17

American Standard Version

and he is before all things, and in him all things consist.

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Colossians 1:17 in other translations

He is before all things, and in him all things are held together.

Colossians 1:17 · World English Bible

Colossians 1:17 in context

  1. 15who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation;
  2. 16for in him were all things created, in the heavens and upon the earth, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers; all things have been created through him, and unto him;
  3. 17and he is before all things, and in him all things consist.
  4. 18And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.
  5. 19For it was the good pleasure of the Father that in him should all the fulness dwell;