Colossians 1:19–28

¹⁹For in Him ¹all ^athe fullness of God ^bwas pleased to dwell,

²⁰And through Him to ^areconcile all things to Himself, having made ^bpeace through ^cthe blood of His cross—through Him—^dwhether things on earth or things in ¹heaven.

²¹And although you were ^aformerly alienated and enemies in mind and in evil deeds,

²²but now He ^areconciled you in the ^bbody of His flesh through death, in order to ^cpresent you before Him ^dholy and blameless and beyond reproach—

²³if indeed you continue in ¹the faith firmly ^agrounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the ^bhope of the gospel, which you have heard, which was proclaimed ^cin all creation under heaven, ^dand of which I, Paul, ²was made a ^3eminister.

^24aNow I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and ^bI fill up what is lacking of Christ’s afflictions in my flesh, on behalf of ^cHis body, which is the church,

^25aof which I ¹was made a minister according to the ^bstewardship from God given to me for you, so that I might ²fully carry out the preaching of the word of God,

²⁶that is, ^athe mystery which has been hidden from the past ages and generations, but has now been manifested to His ¹saints,

²⁷to whom ^aGod willed to make known what is ^bthe riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is ^cChrist in you, the ^dhope of glory.

²⁸Him we proclaim, ^aadmonishing every man and teaching every man ¹with all ^bwisdom, so that we may ^cpresent every man ^2dcomplete in Christ.