~ have the preeminence ~ , 51_COL_01_18  And he is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all [things] he might have the preeminence. #, 64_3JO_01_09  I  wrote unto the church, but Diotrephes, who loveth to have the preeminence among them, receiveth us not. #,