Colossians:1:15-23

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* He is a visible image of the invisible God , the firstborn of all creation ; * for in him was the universe created , things in heaven and on earth , the seen and the unseen , thrones , or dominions , or principalities , or powers ; by him and for him all have been created ; * and HE IS before all , and in him all things subsist . * He is the head of his Body , the Church . He is the beginning , the firstborn from the dead , in order that in all things he may become preeminent . * For in him all the divine fulness chose to dwell ; * and by him it chose to reconcile all things alike on earth or in heaven to himself ; making peace by him , through the blood of his cross . * And you , alienated as you once were , hostile at heart in your evil deeds , * he has now in his human body reconciled to God by his death , in order that he may bring you into his presence , holy and unblemished and irreproachable . * And this he will do if , indeed , you continue in the faith , firmly founded and stedfast , and never moved away from the hope of the gospel which you heard , and which has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven , that gospel of which I , Paul , was made a minister .

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