TSK · Colossians 1:15

They saw the God of Israel. Under his feet was like a paved work of sapphire stone, like the skies for clearness.

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

Above the expanse that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone; and on the likeness of the throne was a likeness as the appearance of a man on it above.

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.

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.

If I hadn't done among them the works which no one else did, they wouldn't have had sin. But now have they seen and also hated both me and my Father.

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.

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

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.

who alone has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light; whom no man has seen, nor can see: to whom be honor and eternal power. Amen.

Again, when he brings in the firstborn into the world he says, "Let all the angels of God worship him."

"To the angel of the assembly in Laodicea write: "The Amen, the Faithful and True Witness, the Head of God's creation, says these things: