Col 1:18 | NET2full | STEP | He is the head of the body , the church , as well as the beginning , the firstborn from the dead , so that he himself may become first in all things .

‏ Colossians 1:18

18 He is the head of the body, the church, as well as the beginning, the firstborn ^{▼▼tn See the note on the term “firstborn” in 1:15. Here the reference to Jesus as the “firstborn from the dead” seems to be arguing for a chronological priority, i.e., Jesus was the first to rise from the dead.} from the dead, so that he himself may become first in all things. ^{▼▼tn Grk “in order that he may become in all things, himself, first.”}