Colossians 1:14-23

14In Him we have redemption—the release of sins.

15He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.

16For by Him all things were created— in heaven and on earth, the seen and the unseen, whether thrones or angelic powers or rulers or authorities. All was created through Him and for Him.

17He exists before everything, and in Him all holds together.

18He is the head of the body, His community. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead— so that He might come to have first place in all things.

19For God was pleased to have all His fullness dwell in Him

20and through Him to reconcile all things to Himself, making peace through the blood of His cross— whether things on earth or things in heaven!

21Once you were alienated from God and hostile in your attitude by wicked deeds.

22But now He has reconciled you in Messiah’s physical body through death, in order to present you holy, spotless and blameless in His eyes—

23if indeed you continue in the faith, established and firm, not budging from the hope of the Good News that you have heard. This Good News has been proclaimed throughout all creation under heaven, and I, Paul, have become its servant.