Colossians Chapter 1 verse 17 Holy Bible

ASV Colossians 1:17

and he is before all things, and in him all things consist.
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BBE Colossians 1:17

He is before all things, and in him all things have being.
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DARBY Colossians 1:17

And *he* is before all, and all things subsist together by him.
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KJV Colossians 1:17

And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.
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WBT Colossians 1:17


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WEB Colossians 1:17

He is before all things, and in him all things are held together.
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YLT Colossians 1:17

and himself is before all, and the all things in him have consisted.
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Colossians 1 : 17 Bible Verse Songs

Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 17. (d) All things through Him and unto Him have been created; (e) And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist. II. Ver. 18. . . .

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(17) He is before all things.--The words "He is" are both emphatic. He, and He only, is; all else is created. It is impossible not to refer to the "I am" of Eternal existence, as claimed by our Lord for Himself. "Before Abraham was, I am" (John 8:58; comp. also John 1:15). Hence the word "before" should be taken, not of supreme dignity, but of pre-existence.By him all things consist.--That is, hold together in unity, obeying the primaeval law of their being. In this clause is attributed to our Lord, not only the creative act, but also the constant sustaining power, "in which all lives and moves and has its being," and which, even less than the creative agency, can be supposed to be a derivative and finite power, such as that of the Demiurgus of Gnostic speculation.