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Colossians 1:16-26

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16 for through him God created everything in the heavenly realms and on earth. He made the things we can see and the things we can’t see— such as thrones, kingdoms, rulers, and authorities in the unseen world. Everything was created through him and for 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 existed before anything else, and he holds all creation together.
17 He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.
18 Christ is also the head of the church, which is his body. He is the beginning, supreme over all who rise from the dead. So he is first in everything.
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 For God in all his fullness was pleased to live in Christ,
19 For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him,
20 and through him God reconciled everything to himself. He made peace with everything in heaven and on earth by means of Christ’s blood on 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.
21 This includes you who were once far away from God. You were his enemies, separated from him by your evil thoughts and actions.
21 Once you were alienated from God and were enemies in your minds because of your evil behavior.
22 Yet now he has reconciled you to himself through the death of Christ in his physical body. As a result, he has brought you into his own presence, and you are holy and blameless as you stand before him without a single fault.
22 But now he has reconciled you by Christ’s physical body through death to present you holy in his sight, without blemish and free from accusation—
23 But you must continue to believe this truth and stand firmly in it. Don’t drift away from the assurance you received when you heard the Good News. The Good News has been preached all over the world, and I, Paul, have been appointed as God’s servant to proclaim it.
23 if you continue in your faith, established and firm, and do not move from the hope held out in the gospel. This is the gospel that you heard and that has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven, and of which I, Paul, have become a servant.
24 I am glad when I suffer for you in my body, for I am participating in the sufferings of Christ that continue for his body, the church.
24 Now I rejoice in what I am suffering for you, and I fill up in my flesh what is still lacking in regard to Christ’s afflictions, for the sake of his body, which is the church.
25 God has given me the responsibility of serving his church by proclaiming his entire message to you.
25 I have become its servant by the commission God gave me to present to you the word of God in its fullness—
26 This message was kept secret for centuries and generations past, but now it has been revealed to God’s people.
26 the mystery that has been kept hidden for ages and generations, but is now disclosed to the Lord’s people.
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