And he is before all things, and in 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.

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

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

He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. 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, from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we exist.

Jesus said to them,“ Truly, truly, I say to 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 in the beginning with God.All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made.

He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of 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 indeed his offspring.’

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

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

I, I am the Lord, and besides me there is no savior.I declared and saved and proclaimed, when there was no strange god among you; and you are my witnesses,” declares the Lord,“ and I am God.Also henceforth I am he; there is none who can deliver from my hand; I work, and who can turn it back?”

Thus says the Lord, the King of Israel and his Redeemer, the Lord of hosts:“ I am the first and I am the last; besides me there is no god.

When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. But he laid his right hand on me, saying,“ Fear not, I am the first and the last,

“ And to the angel of the church in Smyrna write:‘ The words of the first and the last, who died and came to life.

“ The Lord possessed me at the beginning of his work, the first of his acts of old.Ages ago I was set up, at the first, before the beginning of the earth.

But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, who are too little to be among the clans of Judah, from you shall come forth for me one who is to be ruler in Israel, whose coming forth is from of old, from ancient days.

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.

When the earth totters, and all its inhabitants, it is I who keep steady its pillars. Selah

He raises up the poor from the dust; he lifts the needy from the ash heap to make them sit with princes and inherit a seat of honor. For the pillars of the earth are the Lord’s, and on them he has set the world.

But Jesus answered them,“ My Father is working until now, and I am working.”This was why the Jews were seeking all the more to kill him, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God.

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