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Full of "the Deity" in Christ

Colossians 2:9
9 For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form,
10 and you have been given fullness in Christ, who is the head over every power and authority.

Philippians 2:5-7
5Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus:
6 Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped,
7 but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness.

Jesus Is God and the Creator

John 1:1-5
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2He was with God in the beginning.
3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.

Jesus Existed Before the World Began

John 17:5
5 And now, Father, glorify me in your presence with the glory I had with you before the world began.

Jesus Accepts Worship Reserved for God

Luke 4:8
Jesus answered, "It is written: 'Worship the Lord your God and serve him only.' "

Matthew 28:9
Suddenly Jesus met them. "Greetings," he said. They came to him, clasped his feet and worshiped him

Matthew 28:16
16Then the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go.
17When they saw him, they worshiped him; but some doubted.

John 20:26
 26A week later his disciples were in the house again, and Thomas was with them. Though the doors were locked, Jesus came and stood among them and said, "Peace be with you!"
27Then he said to Thomas, "Put your finger here; see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it into my side. Stop doubting and believe."
28Thomas said to him, "My Lord and my God!"

Jesus References Himself as "I AM"

John 8:58-59
58"I tell you the truth," Jesus answered, "before Abraham was born, I am!"
59At this, they picked up stones to stone him, but Jesus hid himself, slipping away from the temple grounds.

Other References to Jesus as God

Acts 20:28
28Keep watch over yourselves and all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be shepherds of the church of God, which he bought with his own blood.

Philippians 2:10-11
…that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
(Note: “Lord” = Jehovah/Yahweh. )

1 Peter 2:3
…now that you have tasted that the Lord is good.
(Note: Nearly identical reference to Psalms 34:8 - “Lord” is Jehovah/Yahweh. )