which has come to you, just as in all the world also it is constantly bearing fruit and increasing, even as it has been doing in you also since the day you heard of it and understood the grace of God in truth;

He is also head of the body, the church; and He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that He Himself will come to have first place in everything.

things which are a mere shadow of what is to come; but the substance belongs to Christ.

For it is because of these things that the wrath of God will come upon the sons of disobedience,