Colossians 1:13-23 - What God Has Done Through Christ

¹³ who has delivered us from the authority of darkness, and has translated us into the kingdom of his beloved Son, ¹⁴ in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins;

¹⁵ who is the image of the invisible God, the first-born of every creature; ¹⁶ for by him were all things created, things in heaven and things in earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones, or lordships, or principalities, or authorities; all things were created by him, and for him: ¹⁷ and he is before all things, and by him all things consist: ¹⁸ and he is the head of the body, the church: and he is the beginning, the first-born from the dead, that in all things he might be preeminent; ¹⁹ for it pleased the Father that all his fullness should dwell in him, ²⁰ and by him to reconcile all things to himself, having made peace by the blood of his cross; by him, I say, whether things on earth or things in heaven.

²¹ And you, who were formerly alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now has he reconciled ²² by means of death in his fleshly body, that he may present you holy, and without spot, and blameless in his sight; ²³ if you continue in the faith, founded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel that you have heard, which has been preached to every creature under heaven, of which I, Paul, have been made a minister.