Colossians 1:18-24

18And he is the head of the body, the assembly; who is [the] beginning, firstborn from among the dead, that he might have the first place in all things:

19for in him all the fulness [of the 1Godhead] was pleased to dwell,

20and by him to reconcile all things to itself, having made peace by the blood of his cross — by him, whether the things on the earth or the things in the heavens.

21And you, who once were alienated and enemies in mind by wicked works, yet now has it reconciled

22in the body of his flesh through death; to present you holy and unblamable and irreproachable before it,

23if indeed ye abide in the faith founded and firm, and not moved away from the hope of the glad tidings, which ye have heard, which have been proclaimed in the whole creation which [is] under heaven, of which I Paul became minister.

24Now, I rejoice in sufferings for you, and I fill up that which is behind of the tribulations of Christ in my flesh, for his body, which is the assembly;