Colossians 1:13-23 - What God Has Done Through Christ
13 He has rescued us from the dominion of darkness, and has transferred us into the realm of his dear Son, 14 by whom we have been ransomed from captivity through having our sins forgiven.
15 He is a likeness of the unseen God, born before any creature, 16 for it was through him that everything was created in heaven and on earth, the seen and the unseen, angelic thrones, dominions, principalities, authorities??ll things were created through him and for him. 17 He existed before all things and he sustains and embraces them all. 18 He is the head of the church, it is his body; for he is the beginning, the firstborn from among the dead??hat he might come to stand first in everything. 19 For all the divine fulness chose to dwell in him, 20 and through him to reconcile to God all things on earth or in heaven, making this peace through his blood shed on the cross.
21 And it has brought you, who were once estranged from him, hostile in attitude and engaged in doing wrong (though now he has reconciled you 22 through dying in his human body) in holiness, and free from reproach or blame, into God's presence??23 if at least you continue firm and steadfast in the exercise of faith, and never shift from the hope held out in the good news to which you listened, which has been preached all over the world, and for which I, Paul, became a worker.