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Colossians 1:17-18

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1:17 He himself is before all things and all things are held together 1  in him.

1:18 He is the head of the body, the church, as well as the beginning, the firstborn 2  from among the dead, so that he himself may become first in all things. 3 

1 tn BDAG 973 s.v. συνίστημι B.3 suggests “continue, endure, exist, hold together” here.

2 tn See the note on the term “firstborn” in 1:15. Here the reference to Jesus as the “firstborn from among the dead” seems to be arguing for a chronological priority, i.e., Jesus was the first to rise from the dead.

3 tn Grk “in order that he may become in all things, himself, first.”



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