He is before all things, and by him all things hold together.

他在万有之先；万有也靠他而立。

他在万有之先；万有也靠他而存在。

他在万有之先；万有也靠他而存在。

祂存在于万物之前，万物都靠祂而维系。

他在万有之先；万有也一同靠着他而存在。

他在万有之先，万有也藉着他而存在，

他在萬有之先；萬有也靠他而立。

他在萬有之先；萬有也靠他而存在。

他在萬有之先；萬有也靠他而存在。

祂存在於萬物之前，萬物都靠祂而維繫。

他在萬有之先；萬有也一同靠著他而存在。

他在萬有之先，萬有也本着他而一同立住；

他在萬有之先，萬有也藉著他而存在，

彼先萬有萬有本之而立、

上帝之子先萬物、萬物以之恆存、

彼先於萬物、萬物藉彼而立、

基督先萬有生、為萬有之綱領、萬有賴以維繫、而各得其所焉。

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

Before anything was created, he was already there. He holds everything together.

And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together.

He existed before anything else, and he holds all creation together.

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

And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist.

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

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

And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.

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

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

The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact expression of his nature, sustaining all things by his powerful word. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.

yet for us there is one God, the Father. All things are from him, and we exist for him. And there is one Lord, Jesus Christ. All things are through him, and we exist through him.

Jesus said to them,“ Truly I tell you, before Abraham was, I am.”

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.He was with God in the beginning.All things were created through him, and apart from him not one thing was created that has been created.

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

For in him we live and move and have our being, as even some of your own poets have said,‘ For we are also his offspring.’

Now, Father, glorify me in your presence with that glory I had with you before the world existed.

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

I— I am the LORD. Besides me, there is no Savior.I alone declared, saved, and proclaimed— and not some foreign god among you. So you are my witnesses”— this is the LORD’s declaration—“ and I am God.Also, from today on I am he alone, and none can rescue from my power. I act, and who can reverse it?”

This is what the LORD, the King of Israel and its Redeemer, the LORD of Armies, says: I am the first and I am the last. There is no God but me.

When I saw him, I fell at his feet like a dead man. He laid his right hand on me and said,“ Don’t be afraid. I am the First and the Last,

“ Write to the angel of the church in Smyrna: Thus says the First and the Last, the one who was dead and came to life:

“ The LORD acquired me at the beginning of his creation, before his works of long ago.I was formed before ancient times, from the beginning, before the earth began.

Bethlehem Ephrathah, you are small among the clans of Judah; one will come from you to be ruler over Israel for me. His origin is from antiquity, from ancient times.

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

When the earth and all its inhabitants shake, I am the one who steadies its pillars. Selah

He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the trash heap. He seats them with noblemen and gives them a throne of honor. For the foundations of the earth are the LORD’s; he has set the world on them.

Jesus responded to them,“ My Father is still working, and I am working also.”This is why the Jews began trying all the more to kill him: Not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal to God.

saying,“ Write on a scroll what you see and send it to the seven churches: Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea.”