Holman Christian Standard Bible CSB
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12 giving thanks to the Father, who has enabled you to share in the saints' inheritance in the light.
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and giving joyful thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of his holy people in the kingdom of light.
13 He has rescued us from the domain of darkness and transferred us into the kingdom of the Son He loves,
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For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves,
14 in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
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in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation;
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The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.
16 because by Him everything was created, 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.
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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 is before all things, and by Him all things hold together.
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He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.
18 He is also the head of the body, the church; He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that He might come to have first place in everything.
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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 was pleased [to have] all His fullness dwell in Him,
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For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him,
20 and through Him to reconcile everything to Himself by making peace through the blood of His cross- whether things on earth or things in heaven.
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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 And you were once alienated and hostile in mind because of your evil actions.
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Once you were alienated from God and were enemies in your minds because of your evil behavior.
22 But now He has reconciled you by His physical body through His death, to present you holy, faultless, and blameless before Him-
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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—
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