He is the
image of the invisible God, the first-born of all creation; for in him all
things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether
thrones or dominions or principalities or authorities—all things were created
through him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold
together. He is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning, the
first-born from the dead, that in everything he might be pre-eminent. For in
him all the fulness of God was pleased to dwell, and through him to reconcile
to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood
of his cross.
And you,
who once were estranged and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds, he has now
reconciled in his body of flesh by his death, in order to present you holy and
blameless and irreproachable before him, provided that you continue in the
faith, stable and steadfast, not shifting from the hope of the gospel which you
heard, which has been preached to every creature under heaven, and of which I,
Paul, became a minister.
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