New American Standard Bible 1995

Colossians 1:16-20

16For 1 2by Him all things were created, 3both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether 4thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities--5all things have been created through Him and for Him. 17He 6 7is before all things, and in Him all things 8hold together. 18He is also 9head of 10the body, the church; and He is 11the beginning, 12the firstborn from the dead, so that He Himself will come to have first place in everything. 19For 13it was 14the Father’s good pleasure for all 15the 16fullness to dwell in Him, 20and through Him to 17reconcile all things to Himself, having made 18peace through 19the blood of His cross; through Him, I say, 20whether things on earth or things in 21heaven.

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1. Colossians 1:16 Or in ↩
2. Colossians 1:16 Eph 1:10 ↩
3. Colossians 1:16 Eph 1:10 ↩
4. Colossians 1:16 Eph 1:20f; Col 2:15 ↩
5. Colossians 1:16 John 1:3; Rom 11:36; 1 Cor 8:6 ↩
6. Colossians 1:17 Or has existed prior to ↩
7. Colossians 1:17 John 1:1; 8:58 ↩
8. Colossians 1:17 Or endure ↩
9. Colossians 1:18 Eph 1:22 ↩
10. Colossians 1:18 Eph 1:23; Col 1:24; 2:19 ↩
11. Colossians 1:18 Rev 3:14 ↩
12. Colossians 1:18 Acts 26:23 ↩
13. Colossians 1:19 Or all the fullness was pleased to dwell ↩
14. Colossians 1:19 Eph 1:5 ↩
15. Colossians 1:19 John 1:16 ↩
16. Colossians 1:19 I.e. fullness of deity ↩
17. Colossians 1:20 2 Cor 5:18; Eph 2:16 ↩
18. Colossians 1:20 Rom 5:1; Eph 2:14 ↩
19. Colossians 1:20 Eph 2:13 ↩
20. Colossians 1:20 Col 1:16 ↩
21. Colossians 1:20 Lit the heavens ↩

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