Colossians 1:17 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁷And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.

Colossians 1:17 —

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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;
1 Corinthians 8:6
But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.
Acts 17:28
For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.
John 1:1-3
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. …
John 17:5
And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 12-29)

Here is a summary of the doctrine of the gospel concerning the great work of our redemption by Christ. It comes in here not as the matter of a sermon, but as the matter of a thanksgiving; for our salvation by Christ furnishes us with abundant matter of thanksgiving in every view of it: Giving thanks unto the Father, Col. 1:12. He does not discourse of the work of redemption in the natural order of…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 17)

17. (Joh 8:58.) Translate as Greek, “And He Himself (the great He) is (implying divine essential being) before all things,” in time, as well as in dignity. Since He is before all things, He is before even time, that is, from eternity. Compare “the first-born of every creature” (Col 1:15). by him--Greek, “IN Him” (as the conditional element of existence, Col 1:16) [Alford]. consist--“subsist.” Not…