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Colossians 1:15-20

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15 We look at this Son and see the God who cannot be seen. We look at this Son and see God's original purpose in everything created.
15 The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.
16 For everything, absolutely everything, above and below, visible and invisible, rank after rank after rank of angels - everything got started in him and finds its purpose in him.
16 For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him.
17 He was there before any of it came into existence and holds it all together right up to this moment.
17 He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.
18 And when it comes to the church, he organizes and holds it together, like a head does a body.
18 And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy.
19 So spacious is he, so roomy, that everything of God finds its proper place in him without crowding.
19 For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him,
20 Not only that, but all the broken and dislocated pieces of the universe - people and things, animals and atoms - get properly fixed and fit together in vibrant harmonies, all because of his death, his blood that poured down from the Cross.
20 and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.
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