8 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

This verse quotes or alludes to 1 earlier text.

• Prov 8:27 · echo
  "When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth:"
  Proverbs: wisdom present at creation — in him all things hold together

• Creation

10 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

• 1Cor 8:6 — But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.
• 1Sam 2:8 — He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the LORD’
• 2Pet 3:5 — For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:
• Acts 17:28 — For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.
• Acts 17:28 — For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.
• Col 1:15 — Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:
• Heb 1:3 — Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the
• Heb 13:8 — Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.
• Isa 43:11 — I, even I, am the LORD; and beside me there is no saviour.
• Isa 44:6 — Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel, and his redeemer the LORD of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God.
• Isa 66:2 — For all those things hath mine hand made, and all those things have been, saith the LORD: but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word.
• John 1:1 — In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
• John 1:1 — In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
• John 1:15 — John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me: for he was before me.
• John 5:17 — But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work.
• John 8:58 — Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am.
• John 8:58 — Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am.
• John 17:5 — And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.
• Mic 5:2 — But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, f
• Mic 5:2 — But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, f
• Prov 8:22 — The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old.
• Prov 8:22 — The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old.
• Ps 55:19 — God shall hear, and afflict them, even he that abideth of old. Selah. Because they have no changes, therefore they fear not God.
• Ps 75:3 — The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I bear up the pillars of it. Selah.
• Rev 1:8 — I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.
• Rev 1:17 — And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I am the first and the last:
• Rev 2:8 — And unto the angel of the church in Smyrna write; These things saith the first and the last, which was dead, and is alive;