"And he is before all things, and by him all things consist."
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But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work.
Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and, What thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the seven churches which are in Asia; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea.
And unto the angel of the church in Smyrna write; These things saith the first and the last, which was dead, and is alive;
He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the LORD's, and he hath set the world upon them.
The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I bear up the pillars of it. Selah.
But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.
Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.
I, even I, am the LORD; and beside me there is no saviour.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.
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.
And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I am the first and the last:
The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old.
Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel, and his redeemer the LORD of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God.
He is before all things, and in him all things have being.
And *he* is before all, and all things subsist together by him.
And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.
And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.
He is before all things, and in him all things are held together.
and himself is before all, and the all things in him have consisted.