Colossians 1:15 KJV — MannaFest

Colossians 1:15

Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:

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ASV

who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation;

WEB

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

YLT

who is the image of the invisible God, first-born of all creation,

DBT

who is image of the invisibleGod, firstborn of all creation;

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Colossians — Christ is preeminent — creator and sustainer, the head of the body, the reconciler of all things. Against every philosophy and empty deceit, the full sufficiency of Christ.

Author: Paul, with Timothy (1:1)
Date: c. AD 60–62, from Roman imprisonment

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Romans 8:29
For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
Hebrews 1:3
Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
John 1:18
No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.
John 14:9
Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?
John 1:1
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

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Inscription and Apostolical Benediction. 1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timotheus our brother, 2 To the saints and faithful brethren in Christ which are at Colosse: Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. The inscription of this epistle is much the same with the rest; only it is observable that, 1.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

(Col 1:16, 17) [TRENCH]. This expression is understood by ORIGEN (so far is the Greek from favoring Socinian or Arian views) as declaring the Godhead of Christ, and is used by Him as a phrase to mark that Godhead, in contrast with His manhood [Book 2, sec. The Greek does not strictly admit ALFORD'S translation, "the first-born of all creation."

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

27 ), in his natural faculties and dominion over the creatures: no, he is the express image of his person, Heb. i. He is so the image of God as the son is the image of his father, who has a natural likeness to him; so that he who has seen him has seen the Father, and his glory was the glory of the only-begotten of the Father, John i.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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Creation to New CreationAnchors the whole arc in Christ: the image of God, firstborn over all creation.

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