Also, he is the head of the Body, that is, of the church, in virtue of his primacy as the first to be born from the dead ??that gives him pre-eminence over all.

Since you have had the messiah, even Jesus the Lord, brought to you, lead your life in him,

it is in him that you reach your full life, and he is the Head of every angelic Ruler and Power;

instead of keeping in touch with that Head under whom the entire Body, supplied with joints and sinews and thus compacted, grows with growth divine.