Colossians 1:19–28

¹⁹For it was the good pleasure of the Father that in him should all the fulness dwell; ²⁰and through him to reconcile all things unto himself, having made peace through the blood of his cross; through him, I say, whether things upon the earth, or things in the heavens. ²¹And you, being in time past alienated and enemies in your mind in your evil works, ²²yet now hath he reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without blemish and unreproveable before him: ²³if so be that ye continue in the faith, grounded and stedfast, and not moved away from the hope of the gospel which ye heard, which was preached in all creation under heaven; whereof I Paul was made a minister. ²⁴Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the church; ²⁵whereof I was made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which was given me to you-ward, to fulfil the word of God, ²⁶even the mystery which hath been hid for ages and generations: but now hath it been manifested to his saints, ²⁷to whom God was pleased to make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory: ²⁸whom we proclaim, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ;