Colossians 1:15-23 - The Centrality Of Christ

¹⁵ Who is the image of the invisible God, the prime author of all creation: ¹⁶ for by him were all things created, celestial and terrestrial, visible or invisible, whether thrones, or dominations, or principalities, or powers, all were created by him, and for him: ¹⁷ and he is before all, and by him all things subsist. ¹⁸ And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning, the first begotten from the dead, that he might be in all things pre-eminent. ¹⁹ For it hath pleased the Father that in him all fulness should dwell; ²⁰ and by him to reconcile all things to himself, making peace by the blood of his cross: by him, I say, whether they be things on earth, or things in the heavens.

²¹ And you who in time past were all aliens, and enemies in mind by wicked works, hath he now reconciled, ²² by the body of his flesh, through death, to present you holy, and blameless, and irreprehensible in his presence: ²³ if ye abide in faith grounded and firm, and never moved aside from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which hath been preached to the whole creation which is under heaven, of which I Paul am a minister.