For everything was created by Him,
in heaven and on earth,
the visible and the invisible,
whether thrones or dominions
or rulers or authorities—
all things have been created through Him and for Him.

For God was pleased to have
all His fullness dwell in Him,

I have become its servant, according to God’s administration that was given to me for you, to make God’s message fully known,

He erased the certificate of debt, with its obligations, that was against us and opposed to us, and has taken it out of the way by nailing it to the cross.

These are a shadow of what was to come; the substance is the Messiah.