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Colossians 1:16
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14 ain whom we have redemption1 through His blood, the forgiveness of sins.  
15 He is athe image of the invisible God, bthe firstborn over all creation.  
16 For aby Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or bdominions or principalities or2 powers. All things were created cthrough Him and for Him.  
17 aAnd He is before all things, and in Him ball things consist.  
18 And aHe is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, bthe firstborn from the dead, that in all things He may have the preeminence.  

Reconciled in Christ

19 For it pleased the Father that ain Him all the fullness should dwell,  
20 and aby Him to reconcile ball things to Himself, by Him, whether things on earth or things in heaven, chaving made peace through the blood of His cross.  
21 And you, awho once were alienated and enemies in your mind bby wicked works, yet now He has creconciled  
22 ain the body of His flesh through death, bto present you holy, and blameless, and above reproach in His sight—  
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Colossians 1:16

Colossians 1:16 By him were all things created. Hence he must have existed before any creation. Compare John 1:3 Heb 1:2. As God manifested himself by means of the Son in the gospel, so in creation he manifested himself through the Son. The visible universe is a manifestation of God through the Son. THE WORD is the power that gives all things existence that exist. Thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers. The angelic hierarchy; different ranks of angels, according to the teachings of some of the Jewish doctors. A heresy had already been proposed that divided these into ranks, assigned them an undue prominence, and held that Christ was only an angel. Paul does not pause to say whether these divisions are correct, but declares All things were created by him, and for him. That Christ is above them all, created them, and that they were created for him. One of these heresies he wished to counteract was the doctrine of angel worship.




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