Colossians 1:13-27

¹³Who hath deliuered vs from the power of darkenesse, and hath translated vs into the kingdome of his deare Sonne,

¹⁴In whome we haue redemption through his blood, that is, the forgiuenesse of sinnes,

¹⁵Who is the image of the inuisible God, the first begotten of euery creature.

¹⁶For by him were all things created, which are in heauen, and which are in earth, thinges visible and inuisible: whether they be Thrones or Dominions, or Principalities, or Powers, all things were created by him, and for him,

¹⁷And hee is before all things, and in him all things consist.

¹⁸And hee is the head of the body of the Church: he is the beginning, and the first begotten of the dead, that in all thinges hee might haue the preeminence.

¹⁹For it pleased the Father, that in him should all fulnesse dwell,

²⁰And through peace made by that blood of that his crosse, to reconcile to himselfe through him, through him, I say, all thinges, both which are in earth, and which are in heauen.

²¹And you which were in times past strangers and enemies, because your mindes were set in euill workes, hath he nowe also reconciled,

²²In that body of his flesh through death, to make you holy, and vnblameable and without fault in his sight,

²³If ye continue, grounded and stablished in the faith, and be not moued away from the hope of the Gospel, whereof ye haue heard, and which hath bene preached to euery creature which is vnder heauen, whereof I Paul am a minister.

²⁴Now reioyce I in my suffrings for you, and fulfill the rest of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh, for his bodies sake, which is the Church,

²⁵Whereof I am a minister, according to the dispensation of God, which is giuen mee vnto you ward, to fulfill the word of God,

²⁶Which is the mysterie hid since the world began, and from all ages, but nowe is made manifest to his Saintes,

²⁷To whome God woulde make knowen what is the riches of his glorious mysterie among the Gentiles, which riches is Christ in you, the hope of glory,