COL 1:17 Parallel Verse View

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Text critical issues=small word differences Clarity of original=clear Importance=normal (All still tentative.)

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

Key: khaki:verbs, light-green:nominative/subject, pink:genitive/possessor, cyan:dative/indirect object.
Note: Automatic aligning of the OET-RV to the LV is done by some temporary software, hence the OET-RV alignments are incomplete (and may occasionally be wrong).

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

AICNT and he is before all things, and in 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 He is before all things, and in him all things are held together.

WMBB (Same as above)

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.

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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.

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 [fn]And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.
(Same as from KJB-1769 above apart from footnotes)

1:17 1.Cor.8.6 ioh.1.3.

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 beynge.)

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 beynge. )

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 allen; and it bestehet all/everything in him.)

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

UGNT καὶ αὐτός ἐστιν πρὸ πάντων, καὶ τὰ πάντα ἐν αὐτῷ συνέστηκεν.
(kai autos estin pro pantōn, kai ta panta en autōi sunestaʸken.)

SBL-GNT καὶ αὐτός ἐστιν πρὸ πάντων καὶ τὰ πάντα ἐν αὐτῷ συνέστηκεν,
(kai autos estin pro pantōn kai ta panta en autōi sunestaʸken,)

TC-GNT καὶ αὐτός ἐστι πρὸ πάντων, καὶ τὰ πάντα ἐν αὐτῷ συνέστηκε.
(kai autos esti pro pantōn, kai ta panta en autōi sunestaʸke. )

Key for above GNTs: yellow:punctuation differs, red:words differ (from our SR-GNT base).

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: grammar-connect-time-sequential

αὐτός ἐστιν πρὸ πάντων

he is before all_‹things›

The word before refers to time, not location. It means that the Son did not come into being when God created everything, but rather he existed as God before anything was created. If it would be helpful in your language, you could use a word or phrase that refers to prior time. Alternate translation: “before God created anything, the Son existed as God”

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor

τὰ πάντα ἐν αὐτῷ συνέστηκεν

the_‹things› all in him /has/_consisted

Paul is speaking here as if all created things hold together because they are inside the Son. By speaking in this way, Paul means that everything that God created continues to exist because the Son actively works to preserve everything. If it would be helpful in your language, you could express the idea plainly. Alternate translation: “he controls everything so that it works the way it should” or “he is the one who makes sure everything has its proper place”

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