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