Verse List for COL 1:17

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Text critical issues=small word differences Clarity of original=clear Importance to us=normal Speaker(s)=Narrator (All still tentative.)

OET (OET-RV) He came before everything and everything still only exists because of him.

OET-LV And he is before all things, and all the things in him has _consisted.

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

UST The Son existed before any of creation existed, and he sustains and connects all of it.

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

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

AICNT And he is before all things, and [in][fn] him all things hold together

OEB All has been created through him and for him. He was before all things, and all things unite in him;

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

MSG ^(15-20)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.

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

LSV and He is before all, and all things have consisted in Him.

FBV He existed before everything, and he holds everything together.

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

T4T and because it is his Son who existed before anything else existed, and because God sustains everything by what his Son does.

LEB and he himself is before all things, and in him all things are held together,

BBE He is before all things, and in him all things have being.

Moff he is prior to all, and all coheres in him.

Wymth And HE IS before all things and in and through Him the universe is a harmonious whole.

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

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

YLT and himself is before all, and the all things in him have consisted.

Drby And he is before all, and all things subsist together by him.

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

SLT And he is before all, and all things have been established by him.

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

KJB-1769 And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.

KJB-1611 And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.
(Same as from KJB-1769 above)

Bshps And he is before all thynges, and in hym all thynges consist.
(And he is before all things, and in him all things consist.)

Gnva And hee is before all things, and in him all things consist.
(And he is before all things, and in him all things consist.)

Cvdl and he is before all thinges, and in him all thinges haue their beynge.
(and he is before all things, and in him all things have their being.)

TNT and he is before all thinges and in him all thynges have their beynge.
(and he is before all things and in him all things have their being.)

Wycl and he is bifor alle, and alle thingis ben in hym.
(and he is before all, and all things been in him.)

Luth Und er ist vor allen; und es bestehet alles in ihm.
(And he is before/in_front_of all/everyone; and it exists all/everything in him.)

ClVg et ipse est ante omnes, et omnia in ipso constant.
(and exactly_that/himself it_is before everyone, and everything in/into/on himself constant.)

SR-GNT Καὶ αὐτός ἐστιν πρὸ πάντων, καὶ τὰ πάντα ἐν αὐτῷ συνέστηκεν. ‡

UGNT καὶ αὐτός ἐστιν πρὸ πάντων, καὶ τὰ πάντα ἐν αὐτῷ συνέστηκεν.

SBL-GNT καὶ αὐτός ἐστιν πρὸ πάντων καὶ τὰ πάντα ἐν αὐτῷ συνέστηκεν,

RP-GNT καὶ αὐτός ἐστιν πρὸ πάντων, καὶ τὰ πάντα ἐν αὐτῷ συνέστηκεν.

TC-GNT καὶ αὐτός ἐστι πρὸ πάντων, καὶ τὰ πάντα ἐν αὐτῷ συνέστηκε.