Colossians 1

18 He is also the head of the body, the church;

he is the beginning,  * 1:18 Gn 1:1; Mk 1:1; Jn 1:1; Ac 26:4

the firstborn from the dead,  * 1:18 Ac 26:23; 1Co 15:20,23; Rv 1:5

so that he might come to have

first place in everything.