11 translations · Greek
Colossians 1:15
who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.
Colossians 1:15 in 11 translations
- WEB World English Bible
- who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.
- KJV King James Version
- Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.
- ASV American Standard Version
- who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation;
- LSV Literal Standard Version
- who is the image of the invisible God, firstborn of all creation,
- FBV Free Bible Version
- The Son is the visible image of the invisible God. He was before all creation,
- YLT Young’s Literal Translation
- who is the image of the invisible God, first-born of all creation,
- DBY Darby Translation
- who is image of the invisible God, firstborn of all creation;
- WBT Webster’s Bible
- Who is the image of the invisible God, the first-born of every creature:
- WEBC World English Bible (Catholic)
- He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.
- DRA Douay-Rheims 1899
- Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:
The Greek words
Each word of the Greek text in order, with its transliteration, the Berean Standard Bible’s English for it, and its Strong’s number and short definition.
| Word | Transliteration | English (BSB) | Strong’s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ὅς | Hos | [The Son] | G3739 ὅς which |
| ἐστιν | estin | is | G1510 εἰμί to be |
| εἰκὼν | eikōn | [the] image | G1504 εἰκών image |
| τοῦ | tou | of the | G3588 ὁ the/this/who |
| Θεοῦ | Theou | God | G2316 θεός God |
| τοῦ | tou | — | G3588 ὁ the/this/who |
| ἀοράτου | aoratou | invisible | G517 ἀόρατος invisible |
| πρωτότοκος | prōtotokos | [the] firstborn | G4416 πρωτότοκος firstborn |
| πάσης | pasēs | over all | G3956 πᾶς all |
| κτίσεως | ktiseōs | creation | G2937 κτίσις creation |
Related verses
- Hebrews 1:3
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;
- John 14:9
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?’
- John 1:1
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
- 2 Corinthians 4:4
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.
- John 1:18
No one has seen God at any time. The one and only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he has declared him.
- John 1:14
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.
- Psalm 89:27
I will also appoint him my firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth.
- 2 Corinthians 4:6
seeing it is God who said, “Light will shine out of darkness,” who has shone in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
- Philippians 2:6
who, existing in the form of God, didn’t consider equality with God a thing to be grasped,
- 1 Timothy 1:17
Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, to God who alone is wise, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.
Cross references from OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0, most-voted first; text from the World English Bible.
In context
13 who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love;
14 in whom we have our redemption, the forgiveness of our sins;
15 who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.
16 For by him all things were created, in the heavens and on the earth, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers; all things have been created through him, and for him.
17 He is before all things, and in him all things are held together.
Read all of Colossians 1 in the World English Bible.
Edition and source notes
Each translation is shown as its source prints it, in its own verse numbering; where an edition numbers this verse differently, its own reference is given. The World English Bible, King James Version and Berean Standard Bible link to their chapter pages. Edition notes.
Literal Standard Version (2020) © Covenant Press and the Covenant Christian Coalition, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license. Free Bible Version (2018) © Dr. Jonathan Gallagher, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license.
The original words and their English come from the Berean Standard Bible translation tables (public domain); lemmas and short definitions from STEPBible (CC BY 4.0), with Greek definitions based on Abbott-Smith.
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