Colossians 1:13-23 - What God Has Done Through Christ
13 who has rescued us from the domain of darkness and transferred [us] to the kingdom of the Son {he loves}, 14 in whom we have the redemption, the forgiveness of sins,
15 who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation, 16 because all [things] in the heavens and on the earth were created by him, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or powers, all [things] were created through him and for him, 17 and he himself is before all [things], and in him all [things] are held together, 18 and he himself is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that he himself may become first in everything, 19 because he was well pleased [for] all the fullness to dwell in him, 20 and through him to reconcile all [things] to himself, [by] making peace through the blood of his cross, through him, whether things on earth or things in heaven.
21 And {although you were formerly alienated} and enemies in attitude, because of your evil deeds, 22 but now you have been reconciled by {his physical body} through death, to present you holy and blameless and above reproach before him, 23 if indeed you remain in the faith, established and steadfast and not shifted away from the hope of the gospel that you heard, which was proclaimed in all creation under heaven, of which I, Paul, became a minister.