Colossians 1:13-27

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

¹⁴In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins:

¹⁵Who is the image of the invisible God, the first-born of every creature:

¹⁶For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are upon earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:

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

¹⁸And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the first-born from the dead; that in all things he may have the pre-eminence.

¹⁹For it pleased the Father that in him should all fullness dwell;

²⁰And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things to himself; by him, I say , whether they are things on earth, or things in heaven.

²¹And you, that were formerly alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled,

²²In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblamable and unreprovable in his sight:

²³If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and are not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which hath been preached to every creature which is under heaven; of which I Paul am made a minister;

²⁴Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church:

²⁵Of which I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to fulfill the word of God;

²⁶Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages, and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints:

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