Colossians 1:13-27

¹³Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of the Son of his love,

¹⁴In whom we have redemption through his blood, the remission of sins;

¹⁵Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:

¹⁶For in him were all things created in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones, or dominations, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him and in him.

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

¹⁸And he is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he may hold the primacy:

¹⁹Because in him, it hath well pleased the Father, that all fullness should dwell;

²⁰And through him to reconcile all things unto himself, making peace through the blood of his cross, both as to the things that are on earth, and the things that are in heaven.

²¹And you, whereas you were some time alienated and enemies in mind in evil works:

²²Yet now he hath reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unspotted, and blameless before him:

²³If so ye continue in the faith, grounded and settled, and immoveable from the hope of the gospel which you have heard, which is preached in all the creation that is under heaven, whereof I Paul am made a minister.

²⁴Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up those things that are wanting of the sufferings of Christ, in my flesh, for his body, which is the church:

²⁵Whereof I am made a minister according to the dispensation of God, which is given me towards you, that I may fulfill the word of God:

²⁶The mystery which hath been hidden from ages and generations, but now is manifested to his saints,

²⁷To whom God would make known the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ, in you the hope of glory.