if indeed you remain in the faith, established and firm, without shifting from the hope of the gospel that you heard. This gospel has also been preached in all creation under heaven, and I, Paul, have become its servant.
but now he has reconciled you by his physical body through death to present you holy, without blemish, and blameless before him—
And you were at one time strangers and enemies in your minds as expressed through your evil deeds,
and through him to reconcile all things to himself by making peace through the blood of his cross-through him, whether things on earth or things in heaven.
For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in the Son
He is the head of the body, the church, as well as the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that he himself may become first in all things.
He himself is before all things and all things are held together in him.
for all things in heaven and on earth were created in him-all things, whether visible or invisible, whether thrones or dominions, whether principalities or powers-all things were created through him and for him.
He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation,
in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
He delivered us from the power of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of the Son he loves,
giving thanks to the Father who has qualified you to share in the saints' inheritance in the light.