Colossians 1:13-27

¹³who has delivered us from the authority of darkness, and translated us into the kingdom of the Son of his love:

¹⁴in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins;

¹⁵who is image of the invisible God, firstborn of all creation;

¹⁶because by him were created all things, the things in the heavens and the things upon the earth, the visible and the invisible, whether thrones, or lordships, or principalities, or authorities: all things have been created by him and for him.

¹⁷And he is before all, and all things subsist together by him.

¹⁸And he is the head of the body, the assembly; who is the beginning, firstborn from among the dead, that he might have the first place in all things:

¹⁹for in him all the fulness of the Godhead was pleased to dwell,

²⁰and by him to reconcile all things to itself, having made peace by the blood of his cross — by him, whether the things on the earth or the things in the heavens.

²¹And you, who once were alienated and enemies in mind by wicked works, yet now has it reconciled

²²in the body of his flesh through death; to present you holy and unblamable and irreproachable before it,

²³if indeed ye abide in the faith founded and firm, and not moved away from the hope of the glad tidings, which ye have heard, which have been proclaimed in the whole creation which is under heaven, of which I Paul became minister.

²⁴Now, I rejoice in sufferings for you, and I fill up that which is behind of the tribulations of Christ in my flesh, for his body, which is the assembly;

²⁵of which I became minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given me towards you to complete the word of God,

²⁶the mystery which has been hidden from ages and from generations, but has now been made manifest to his saints;

²⁷to whom God would make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the nations, which is Christ in you the hope of glory: