Colossians 1:9–22

⁹Because of this, we also, from the day in which we heard, do not cease praying for you, and asking that ye may be filled with the full knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding, ¹⁰to your walking worthily of the Lord to all pleasing, in every good work being fruitful, and increasing to the knowledge of God, ¹¹in all might being made mighty according to the power of His glory, to all endurance and long-suffering with joy.

¹²Giving thanks to the Father who did make us meet for the participation of the inheritance of the saints in the light, ¹³who did rescue us out of the authority of the darkness, and did translate us into the reign of the Son of His love, ¹⁴in whom we have the redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of the sins, 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,