Cross references

Colossians 1:17

He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together.

Colossians 1:17 BSB

Colossians 1:17 has 19 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 18 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Hebrews 1:3 (50 votes) and 1 Corinthians 8:6 (42 votes). 44 other verses point back to it. It links with 25 other books, from Genesis 1 to Revelation 4.

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Which verses does Colossians 1:17 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. Hebrews 1:350 votes

    The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of His nature, upholding all things by His powerful word. After He had provided purification for sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.

  2. yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came and for whom we exist. And there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things came and through whom we exist.

  3. John 1:1–321 votes

    In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. …

  4. John 8:5821 votes

    “Truly, truly, I tell you,” Jesus declared, “before Abraham was born, I am!”

  5. John 17:521 votes

    And now, Father, glorify Me in Your presence with the glory I had with You before the world existed.

  6. Acts 17:2821 votes

    ‘For in Him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are His offspring.’

  7. Psalm 75:316 votes

    When the earth and all its dwellers quake, it is I who bear up its pillars. Selah

  8. The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.

  9. “I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, who is and was and is to come—the Almighty.

  10. The LORD created me as His first course, before His works of old. From everlasting I was established, from the beginning, before the earth began.

  11. Isaiah 44:615 votes
  12. Hebrews 13:812 votes
  13. Micah 5:28 votes

Which verses point to Colossians 1:17?

The 10 strongest of 44.