Colossians 1:17

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

Who has worked and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I, Yahweh, the first, and with the last, I am he.”

The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

He is clothed in a garment sprinkled with blood. His name is called “The Word of God.”

I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.

“Listen to me, O Jacob, and Israel my called: I am he. I am the first. I am also the last.

Don’t fear, neither be afraid. Haven’t I declared it to you long ago, and shown it? You are my witnesses. Is there a God besides me? Indeed, there is not. I don’t know any other Rock.”

Yahweh, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel says: “I am Yahweh your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you by the way that you should go.

The same was in the beginning with God.

who, existing in the form of God, didn’t consider equality with God a thing to be grasped,

Yahweh says to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool for your feet.”

“I am Yahweh. That is my name. I will not give my glory to another, nor my praise to engraved images.

Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you such a long time, and do you not know me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father. How do you say, ‘Show us the Father?’

‘You Bethlehem, land of Judah, are in no way least among the princes of Judah: for out of you shall come a governor, who shall shepherd my people, Israel.’ ”

Hear, Israel: Yahweh is our God. Yahweh is one.

For a child is born to us. A son is given to us; and the government will be on his shoulders. His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

But now Yahweh who created you, Jacob, and he who formed you, Israel, says: “Don’t be afraid, for I have redeemed you. I have called you by your name. You are mine.

Yahweh, your Redeemer, and he who formed you from the womb says: “I am Yahweh, who makes all things; who alone stretches out the heavens; who spreads out the earth by myself;

has at the end of these days spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made the worlds.

He said to me, “I have become the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give freely to him who is thirsty from the spring of the water of life.

It was shown to you so that you might know that Yahweh is God. There is no one else besides him.

“See now that I myself am he. There is no god with me. I kill and I make alive. I wound and I heal. There is no one who can deliver out of my hand.

in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.

“Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, who is enthroned among the cherubim, you are the God, even you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth.

Don’t be afraid, you worm Jacob, and you men of Israel. I will help you,” says Yahweh. “Your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.

“A Redeemer will come to Zion, and to those who turn from disobedience in Jacob,” says Yahweh.

“Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and shall give birth to a son. They shall call his name Immanuel;” which is, being interpreted, “God with us.”

All things were made through him. Without him, nothing was made that has been made.

No one has seen God at any time. The one and only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, has declared him.

Hasn’t the Scripture said that the Christ comes of the offspring of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?”

Without controversy, the mystery of godliness is great: God was revealed in the flesh, justified in the spirit, seen by angels, preached among the nations, believed on in the world, and received up in glory.

looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ,

God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM,” and he said, “You shall tell the children of Israel this: ‘I AM has sent me to you.’ ”

Know therefore today, and take it to heart, that Yahweh himself is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath. There is no one else.

For Yahweh is our judge. Yahweh is our lawgiver. Yahweh is our king. He will save us.

“For I, Yahweh, don’t change; therefore you, sons of Jacob, are not consumed.

I came from the Father, and have come into the world. Again, I leave the world, and go to the Father.”

For by him all things were created in the heavens and on the earth, visible things and invisible things, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things have been created through him and for him.

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.

For there are three who testify:

For of him, and through him, and to him are all things. To him be the glory for ever! Amen.

yet to us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we for him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we live through him.

I will also appoint him my firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth.

Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of King Herod, behold, wise men from the east came to Jerusalem, saying,

Jesus said to them, “Most certainly, I tell you, before Abraham came into existence, I AM.”

For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,

looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

saying: “We give you thanks, Lord God, the Almighty, the one who is and who was; because you have taken your great power and reigned.

God said, “Let the waters under the sky be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear;” and it was so.

For Judah prevailed above his brothers, and from him came the prince; but the birthright was Joseph’s)—

one Lord, one faith, one baptism,

He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.

His Son is the radiance of his glory, the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, who, when he had by himself purified us of our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high,

but he, when he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of God,

“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.”

This is what Yahweh, the King of Israel, and his Redeemer, Yahweh of Armies, says: “I am the first, and I am the last; and besides me there is no God.

Now, Father, glorify me with your own self with the glory which I had with you before the world existed.

‘For in him we live, move, and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also his offspring.’

When I saw him, I fell at his feet like a dead man. He laid his right hand on me, saying, “Don’t be afraid. I am the first and the last,

The earth and all its inhabitants quake. I firmly hold its pillars.

But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, being small among the clans of Judah, out of you one will come out to me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings out are from of old, from ancient times.

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

He raises up the poor out of the dust. He lifts up the needy from the dunghill to make them sit with princes and inherit the throne of glory. For the pillars of the earth are Yahweh’s. He has set the world on them.

“Yahweh possessed me in the beginning of his work, before his deeds of old.

John testified about him. He cried out, saying, “This was he of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me has surpassed me, for he was before me.’ ”

Tremble before him, all the earth. The world also is established that it can’t be moved.

God, who is enthroned forever, will hear and answer them. They never change, who don’t fear God.

For this they willfully forget that there were heavens from of old, and an earth formed out of water and amid water by the word of God,

saying, “What you see, write in a book and send to the seven assemblies: to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.”

“To the angel of the assembly in Smyrna write: “The first and the last, who was dead, and has come to life says these things:

For my hand has made all these things, and so all these things came to be,” says Yahweh: “but I will look to this man, even to he who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at my word.