PRE-EMINENCE OF JESUS
Pre-eminence is Greek proteuo meaning to be
first, holding the first place
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Matthew 6:22
“But seek ye first
the kingdom of God,
and His
righteousness; and
all these things shall be added unto you.”
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Romans 8:29 “For whom he did foreknow,
he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his
son, that he might be the first born among many brethren.”
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Galatians 2:20 “I am crucified with
Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me;
and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the
faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for
me.”
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Galatians 4:19 “My little children, of
whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you.”
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Ephesians 1:20-23
“Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead,
and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly
places, far above all principality, and power,
and might, and dominion, and every name that is
named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to
come: And hath put all things under his feet, and
gave him to be the head over all things to the church,
which is his body, the fullness of him that filleth all in
all.”
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Philippians 1:20-21
“So now also Christ shall be magnified in my body,
whether it be by life, or by death. For to me to live is Christ,
and to dies is gain.”
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Philippians 3:10 “That
I may know him, and the power of his resurrection and the
fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his
death:”
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Colossians 1:15
“The Son, who is the image of the invisible God,
the firstborn of every creature:”
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Colossians 1:17
“And He is before all things,
and by him all things consist.”
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Colossians 1:18 “Christ is the head
of the body, the church: who is the beginning,
the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he
might have pre-eminence.”
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Colossians 1:27 “To whom God would
make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among
the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:”
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Colossians 2:9 “For in Christ
dwelleth all the fullness of the God-head bodily.”
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I Timothy 6:15 “Our Lord Jesus Christ;
which in his times he shall shew, who is the blessed and only
Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of
lords...to whom be honor and power everlasting.”
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Revelation 1:5 “Jesus Christ, who is
the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead,
and the prince of the kings of the earth.”
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Revelation 17:14 “For He is Lord of
lords, and King of kings.”
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