Colossians 1:13–22

¹³who has delivered us from the authority of darkness, and translated us into the kingdom of the Son of his love: ¹⁴in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins; ¹⁵who is image of the invisible God, firstborn of all creation; ¹⁶because by him were created all things, the things in the heavens and the things upon the earth, the visible and the invisible, whether thrones, or lordships, or principalities, or authorities: all things have been created by him and for him. ¹⁷And he is before all, and all things subsist together by him. ¹⁸And he is the head of the body, the assembly; who is the beginning, firstborn from among the dead, that he might have the first place in all things: ¹⁹for in him all the fulness of the Godhead was pleased to dwell, ²⁰and by him to reconcile all things to itself, having made peace by the blood of his cross—by him, whether the things on the earth or the things in the heavens. ²¹And you, who once were alienated and enemies in mind by wicked works, yet now has it reconciled ²²in the body of his flesh through death; to present you holy and unblamable and irreproachable before it,