14. in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins;
15. who is image of the invisible God, firstborn of all creation;
16. because by him were created all things, the things in the heavens and the things upon the earth, the visible and the invisible, whether thrones, or lordships, or principalities, or authorities: all things have been created by him and for him.
17. And he is before all, and all things subsist together by him.
18. And 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:
19. for in him all the fulness of the Godhead was pleased to dwell,
20. and 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.
21. And you, who once were alienated and enemies in mind by wicked works, yet now has it reconciled
22. in the body of his flesh through death; to present you holy and unblamable and irreproachable before it,
23. if 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 isunder heaven, of which I Paul became minister.
24. Now, 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;
25. of which I became minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given me towards you to complete the word of God,
26. the mystery which has been hidden from ages and from generations, but has now been made manifest to his saints;