rsv Colossians:1:12-20
rsv@Colossians:1:12 @ giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified us to share in the inheritance of the saints in light.
rsv@Colossians:1:13 @ He has delivered us from the dominion of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son,
rsv@Colossians:1:14 @ in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
rsv@Colossians:1:15 @ He is the image of the invisible God, the first-born of all creation;
rsv@Colossians:1:16 @ 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.
rsv@Colossians:1:17 @ He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.
rsv@Colossians:1:18 @ 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.
rsv@Colossians:1:19 @ For in him all the fulness of God was pleased to dwell,
rsv@Colossians:1:20 @ and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross.