Colossians 1:13-27

¹³Who has made us free from the power of evil and given us a place in the kingdom of the Son of his love;

¹⁴In whom we have our salvation, the forgiveness of sins:

¹⁵Who is the image of the unseen God coming into existence before all living things;

¹⁶For by him all things were made, in heaven and on earth, things seen and things unseen, authorities, lords, rulers, and powers; all things were made by him and for him;

¹⁷He is before all things, and in him all things have being.

¹⁸And he is the head of the body, the church: the starting point of all things, the first to come again from the dead; so that in all things he might have the chief place.

¹⁹For God in full measure was pleased to be in him;

²⁰Through him uniting all things with himself, having made peace through the blood of his cross; through him, I say, uniting all things which are on earth or in heaven.

²¹And you, who in the past were cut off and at war with God in your minds through evil works, he has now made one

²²In the body of his flesh through death, so that you might be holy and without sin and free from all evil before him:

²³If you keep yourselves safely based in the faith, not moved from the hope of the good news which came to you, and which was given to every living being under heaven; of which I, Paul, was made a servant.

²⁴Now I have joy in my pain because of you, and in my flesh I undergo whatever is still needed to make the sorrows of Christ complete, for the salvation of his body, the church;

²⁵Of which I became a servant by the purpose of God which was given to me for you, to give effect to the word of God,

²⁶The secret which has been kept from all times and generations, but has now been made clear to his saints,

²⁷To whom God was pleased to give knowledge of the wealth of the glory of this secret among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory: