jesus as image of god
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15He is the image of the invisible God, the first-born of every creature. 16For in him was created everything in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones, or dominations, or principalities, or powers. All things were created through him and in him. 17And he is before all, and in him all things continue.
3And since the Son is the brightness of his glory, and the figure of his substance, and is carrying all things by the Word of his virtue, thereby accomplishing a purging of sins, he sits at the right hand of Majesty on high.
4As for them, the god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that the light of the Gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, would not shine in them.
18No one ever saw God; the only-begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he himself has described him.
19Then Jesus responded and said to them: “Amen, amen, I say to you, the Son is not able to do anything of himself, but only what he has seen the Father doing. For whatever he does, even this does the Son do, similarly.
30I and the Father are one.”
9Jesus said to him: “Have I been with you for so long, and you have not known me? Philip, whoever sees me, also sees the Father. How can you say, ‘Reveal the Father to us?’
28And so Jesus said to them: “When you will have lifted up the Son of man, then you shall realize that I am, and that I do nothing of myself, but just as the Father has taught me, so do I speak.
16For God so loved the world that he gave his only-begotten Son, so that all who believe in him may not perish, but may have eternal life. 17For God did not send his Son into the world, in order to judge the world, but in order that the world may be saved through him.
1In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and God was the Word.
7If you had known me, certainly you would also have known my Father. And from now on, you shall know him, and you have seen him.”
15He is the image of the invisible God, the first-born of every creature.
1Now, faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not apparent. 2For this reason, the ancients were given testimony. 3By faith, we understand the world to be fashioned by the Word of God, so that the visible might be made by the invisible.