Colossians 1:18

For I will pour water on him who is thirsty, and streams on the dry ground. I will pour my Spirit on your descendants, and my blessing on your offspring:

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

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

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

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.

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

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

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

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,

who is at the right hand of God, having gone into heaven, angels and authorities and powers being made subject to him.

The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into his hand.

All things have been delivered to me by my Father. No one knows the Son, except the Father; neither does anyone know the Father, except the Son, and he to whom the Son desires to reveal him.

After these things I heard something like a loud voice of a great multitude in heaven, saying, “Hallelujah! Salvation, power, and glory belong to our God;

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.

For, “He put all things in subjection under his feet.” But when he says, “All things are put in subjection”, it is evident that he is excepted who subjected all things to him.

and through him to reconcile all things to himself by him, whether things on the earth or things in the heavens, having made peace through the blood of his cross.

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.

“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.”

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.

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

Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”

Then he said to Thomas, “Reach here your finger, and see my hands. Reach here your hand, and put it into my side. Don’t be unbelieving, but believing.”

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,

You have put all things in subjection under his feet.” For in that he subjected all things to him, he left nothing that is not subject to him. But now we don’t see all things subjected to him, yet.

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us, and washed us from our sins by his blood—

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.’ ”

“You are my witnesses,” says Yahweh, “With my servant whom I have chosen; that you may know and believe me, and understand that I am he. Before me there was no God formed, neither will there be after me.

I also tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my assembly, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.

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

knowing that Christ, being raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over him!

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

For there are three who testify:

I told him, “My lord, you know.” He said to me, “These are those who came out of the great suffering.They washed their robes, and made them white in the Lamb’s blood.

To the woman he said, “I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. You will bear children in pain. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”

Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin will conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.

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

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

“Hey! Come, everyone who thirsts, to the waters! Come, he who has no money, buy, and eat! Yes, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.

He must increase, but I must decrease.

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

for we can’t help telling the things which we saw and heard.”

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.

“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:

These will war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them, for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings, and those who are with him are called chosen and faithful.”

He has on his garment and on his thigh a name written, “KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.”

even as you gave him authority over all flesh, so he will give eternal life to all whom you have given him.

and you are Christ’s, and Christ is God’s.

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

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.

Therefore I endure all things for the chosen ones’ sake, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.

We have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as the Savior of the world.

We know that the Son of God has come, and has given us an understanding, that we know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.

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,

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.

The Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” He who hears, let him say, “Come!” He who is thirsty, let him come. He who desires, let him take the water of life freely.

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

how the Christ must suffer, and how, by the resurrection of the dead, he would be first to proclaim light both to these people and to the Gentiles.”

For as the sufferings of Christ abound to us, even so our comfort also abounds through Christ.

which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.

that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, those on earth, and those under the earth,

that which we have seen and heard we declare to you, that you also may have fellowship with us. Yes, and our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son, Jesus Christ.

He put all things in subjection under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things for the assembly,

Jesus came to them and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.

But I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.

When he again brings in the firstborn into the world he says, “Let all the angels of God worship him.”

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

‘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.’ ”

He is the one who comes after me, who is preferred before me, whose sandal strap I’m not worthy to loosen.”

For as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ.

Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually.

But now Christ has been raised from the dead. He became the first fruits of those who are asleep.

For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet.

For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the assembly, being himself the savior of the body.

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the assembly,

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

and the Living one. I was dead, and behold, I am alive forever and ever. Amen. I have the keys of Death and of Hades.

“To the angel of the assembly in Laodicea write: “The Amen, the Faithful and True Witness, the Beginning of God’s creation, says these things:

The seventh angel sounded, and great voices in heaven followed, saying, “The kingdom of the world has become the Kingdom of our Lord, and of his Christ. He will reign forever and ever!”

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.

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

for behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and behold, my sheaf arose and also stood upright; and behold, your sheaves came around, and bowed down to my sheaf.”

Go out, you daughters of Zion, and see king Solomon, with the crown with which his mother has crowned him, in the day of his weddings, in the day of the gladness of his heart.

Your head on you is like Carmel. The hair of your head like purple. The king is held captive in its tresses.

Behold, my servant will deal wisely. He will be exalted and lifted up, and will be very high.

When the prince enters, he shall go in by the way of the porch of the gate, and he shall go out by its way.

But don’t you be called ‘Rabbi,’ for one is your teacher, the Christ, and all of you are brothers.

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

From his fullness we all received grace upon grace.

For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

to an administration of the fullness of the times, to sum up all things in Christ, the things in the heavens and the things on the earth, in him.

Therefore God also highly exalted him, and gave to him the name which is above every name,

and not holding firmly to the Head, from whom all the body, being supplied and knit together through the joints and ligaments, grows with God’s growth.

and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead: Jesus, who delivers us from the wrath to come.

having become as much better than the angels as the more excellent name he has inherited is better than theirs.

For he has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, because he who built the house has more honor than the house.

That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we saw, and our hands touched, concerning the Word of life

My beloved is white and ruddy. The best among ten thousand.