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Colossians 1:15
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Colossians 1:15
15Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:
15Who is the image of the inuisible God, the first borne of euery creature.
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Colossians 1:15
A likeness, representation, or visible form; often an idol when made or used as an object of worship.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Unable to be seen; imperceptible to sight.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
A deity or object of worship; when referring to the LORD, the one true God.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Each one of all; all taken separately, without exception in the stated group.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
A created being or thing.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Open the full verse study3Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
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Open the full verse study9Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?
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Open the full verse study1IN the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
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Open the full verse study4In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
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Open the full verse study18No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.
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Open the full verse study14And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
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Open the full verse study27Also I will make him my firstborn, higher than the kings of the earth.
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Open the full verse study6For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
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Open the full verse study6Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:
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Open the full verse study17Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen.
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Open the full verse study29For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
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Open the full verse study16For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:
17And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.
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Open the full verse study6And again, when he bringeth in the firstbegotten into the world, he saith, And let all the angels of God worship him.
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Open the full verse study16¶ For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
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Open the full verse study14And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;
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Open the full verse study16Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and power everlasting. Amen.
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Open the full verse study26¶ And above the firmament that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone: and upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as the appearance of a man above upon it.
27And I saw as the colour of amber, as the appearance of fire round about within it, from the appearance of his loins even upward, and from the appearance of his loins even downward, I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and it had brightness round about.
28As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord. And when I saw it, I fell upon my face, and I heard a voice of one that spake.
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Open the full verse study29When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:
30Then I was by him, as one brought up with him: and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him;
31Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; and my delights were with the sons of men.
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Open the full verse study13Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:
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Open the full verse study24If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.
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Open the full verse study10And they saw the God of Israel: and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness.
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Open the full verse study8With him will I speak mouth to mouth, even apparently, and not in dark speeches; and the similitude of the Lord shall he behold: wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?
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Open the full verse study27By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.
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