Colossians 1:15,19
Colossians 1:15-18 The Message (MSG)
We look at this Son and see the God who cannot be seen. We look at this Son and see God’s original purpose in everything created. For everything, absolutely everything, above and below, visible and invisible, rank after rank after rank of angels—everything got started in him and finds its purpose in him. He was there before any of it came into existence and holds it all together right up to this moment. And when it comes to the church, he organizes and holds it together, like a head does a body.
Colossians 1:18b-20 The Message (MSG)
He was supreme in the beginning and—leading the resurrection parade—he is supreme in the end. From beginning to end he’s there, towering far above everything, everyone. So spacious is he, so expansive, that everything of God finds its proper place in him without crowding. Not only that, but all the broken and dislocated pieces of the universe—people and things, animals and atoms—get properly fixed and fit together in vibrant harmonies, all because of his death, his blood that poured down from the cross.
Colossians 1:15 King James Version (KJV)
Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature
Colossians 1:19 King James Version (KJV)
For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell
Colossians 1:15 New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995 (NASB1995)
He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.
Colossians 1:19 New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995 (NASB1995)
For it was the Father’s good pleasure for all the fullness to dwell in Him
Colossians 1:15 New Century Version (NCV)
No one can see God, but Jesus Christ is exactly like him. He ranks higher than everything that has been made.
Colossians 1:19 New Century Version (NCV)
God was pleased for all of himself to live in Christ.
Colossians 1:15 American Standard Version (ASV)
who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation
Colossians 1:19 American Standard Version (ASV)
For it was the good pleasure of the Father that in him should all the fulness dwell
Colossians 1:15 New International Version (NIV)
The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.
Colossians 1:19 New International Version (NIV)
For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him
Colossians 1:15 New King James Version (NKJV)
He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.
Colossians 1:19 New King James Version (NKJV)
For it pleased the Father that in Him all the fullness should dwell
Colossians 1:15 Amplified Bible (AMP)
He is the exact living image [the essential manifestation] of the unseen God [the visible representation of the invisible], the firstborn [the preeminent one, the sovereign, and the originator] of all creation.
Colossians 1:19 Amplified Bible (AMP)
For it pleased the Father for all the fullness [of deity—the sum total of His essence, all His perfection, powers, and attributes] to dwell [permanently] in Him (the Son)
Colossians 1:15 New Living Translation (NLT)
Christ is the visible image of the invisible God. He existed before anything was created and is supreme over all creation
Colossians 1:19 New Living Translation (NLT)
For God in all his fullness was pleased to live in Christ
Colossians 1:15 The Passion Translation (TPT)
He is the divine portrait, the true likeness of the invisible God, and the firstborn heir of all creation.
Colossians 1:19 The Passion Translation (TPT)
For God is satisfied to have all his fullness dwelling in Christ.