Colossians 1:15–23

¹⁵Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:

¹⁶For in him were all things created in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones, or dominations, or principalities, or powers. All things were created by him and in him.

¹⁷And he is before all: and by him all things consist.

¹⁸And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things he may hold the primacy:

¹⁹Because in him, it hath well pleased the Father that all fulness should dwell:

²⁰And through him to reconcile all things unto himself, making peace through the blood of his cross, both as to the things that are on earth and the things that are in heaven.

²¹And you, whereas you were some time alienated and enemies in mind in evil works:

²²Yet now he hath reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unspotted and blameless before him:

²³If so ye continue in the faith, grounded and settled, and immoveable from the hope of the gospel which you have heard, which is preached in all the creation that is under heaven: whereof I Paul am made a minister.