“He is the head of the body, the assembly, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things he might have the preeminence.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Colossians 1 contains 29 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.