10 Bible Verses About The Firstborn over Creation
10 Bible verses about The Firstborn over Creation to read, reflect on, and commit to memory.
For in him everything in heaven and on earth was created, the seen and the unseen, whether thrones or dominions, rulers or authorities. Everything has been created through him and for him.
He exists before all things, and all things are held together in him.
All things came into being through him, and without him nothing came into being that has come into being.
and from Jesus Christ, the witness who is faithful, the firstborn from among the dead, and the ruler over the kings of the earth. To him who loves us and by his blood released us from our sins,
And again, at the time God brings his firstborn into the world, he says, “All the angels of God are to worship him.”
But at the end of these days he has spoken to us through the Son, whom he appointed heir of all things and through whom he also made the ages.
Yet for us there is one God, the Father. Everything has its source in him, and our life is directed to him. And there is one Lord, Jesus Christ. Everything exists through him, and through him we exist.
He is also the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the first to be born from among the dead, so that he would come to hold first place in everything.
Those God knew beforehand he also marked out beforehand to be shaped into the image of his Son, so that the Son would be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters.
He was in the world, and though the world came into being through him, the world did not recognize him.