Colossians 1:13-23 - What God Has Done Through Christ
13 Who saved us from the power of darkness, and transferred into the kingdom of the Son of his love: 14 In whom we have redemption by his blood, the remission of sins:
15 Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation: 16 For by him were all things created, things in the heavens, and things upon earth, things visible and invisible, whether thrones, whether dominions, whether beginnings, whether authorities: all were created by him, and for him: 17 And he is before all, and all things have been established by him. 18 And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that he might be the first in all 19 For in him was he pleased that all fulness should dwell: 20 And by him to reconcile all things anew to himself; having made peace by the blood of his cross, by him, whether things upon earth, whether things in the heavens.
21 And you, once being alienated and enemies in mind by evil works, and now has he reconciled 22 In the body of his flesh by death, to present you holy, and blameless, and irreproachable before him: 23 If indeed ye remain in the faith, founded and firmly fixed, and not moved aside from the hope of the good news, which ye heard, being proclaimed in all creation under heaven; of which I Paul was a servant;