Colossians 1:15–23

¹⁵who is the image of the invisible God, first-born of all creation, ¹⁶because in him were the all things created, those in the heavens, and those upon the earth, those visible, and those invisible, whether thrones, whether lordships, whether principalities, whether authorities; all things through him, and for him, have been created, ¹⁷and himself is before all, and the all things in him have consisted. ¹⁸And himself is the head of the body—the assembly—who is a beginning, a first-born out of the dead, that he might become in all things—himself—first, ¹⁹because in him it did please all the fulness to tabernacle, ²⁰and through him to reconcile the all things to himself—having made peace through the blood of his cross—through him, whether the things upon the earth, whether the things in the heavens. ²¹And you—once being alienated, and enemies in the mind, in the evil works, yet now did he reconcile, ²²in the body of his flesh through the death, to present you holy, and unblemished, and unblameable before himself, ²³if also ye remain in the faith, being founded and settled, and not moved away from the hope of the good news, which ye heard, which was preached in all the creation that is under the heaven, of which I became—I Paul—a ministrant.