Colossians 1:13-27

¹³Which delivered us from the power of darknesses, and translated us into the kingdom of the Son of his loving,

¹⁴in whom we have again-buying, and remission of sins.

¹⁵Which is the image of God invisible, the first begotten of each creature.

¹⁶For in him all things be made, in heavens and in earth, visible and invisible, either thrones, either dominations, either princehoods, either powers, all things be made of nought by him, and in him,

¹⁷and he is before all, and all things be in him.

¹⁸And he is head of the body of the church; which is the beginning, or the first of all, and the first begotten of dead men, that he hold the first dignity or primacy, in all things.

¹⁹For in him it pleased all plenty to inhabit,

²⁰and by him all things to be reconciled into him, and made peace by the blood of his cross, those things that be in earths, either that be in heavens.

²¹And when ye were sometime aliened or made strangers, and enemies by wit, in evil works, now he hath reconciled you

²²in the body of his flesh by death, to have you holy, and unwemmed, and without reproof before him.

²³If nevertheless ye dwell in the faith, founded, and stable, and unmoveable from the hope of the gospel that ye have heard, which is preached in all creature that is under heaven. Of which I, Paul, am made a minister,

²⁴and now I have joy in passion for you, and I ful fill those things that fail of the passions of Christ in my flesh, for his body, that is the church.

²⁵Of which I Paul am made minister or a servant by the dispensation of God, that is given to me in you, that I ful fill the word of God,

²⁶the private or the mystery that was hid from worlds and generations. But now it is showed to his saints,

²⁷to whom God would make known the riches of the glory of this sacrament in heathen men, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.