NEW TESTAMENT

Colossians 1:18

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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.

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Verse 18. He is the head of the body, the church. He now speaks of what applies to Christ as man.—The first-born from the dead; that is the first that rose to an immortal life. Witham.

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