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12 giving thanks to the Father, who has enabled you to share in the inheritance of the saints 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 power of darkness and transferred us into the kingdom of his beloved Son,
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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 of all creation;
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The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.
16 for in him all things in heaven and on earth were created, things visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or powers—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 himself is before all things, and in him all things hold together.
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He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.
18 He is 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 in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell,
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For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him,
20 and through him God was pleased to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, by making peace through the blood of his cross.
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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 who were once estranged and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds,
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Once you were alienated from God and were enemies in your minds because of your evil behavior.
22 he has now reconciled in his fleshly body through death, so as to present you holy and blameless and irreproachable 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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