The Latin Vulgate w/ Apocrypha VULA
New International Version NIV
16 quia in ipso condita sunt universa in caelis et in terra visibilia et invisibilia sive throni sive dominationes sive principatus sive potestates omnia per ipsum et in ipso creata sunt
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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 et ipse est ante omnes et omnia in ipso constant
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He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.
18 et ipse est caput corporis ecclesiae qui est principium primogenitus ex mortuis ut sit in omnibus ipse primatum tenens
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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 quia in ipso conplacuit omnem plenitudinem habitare
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For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him,
20 et per eum reconciliare omnia in ipsum pacificans per sanguinem crucis eius sive quae in terris sive quae in caelis sunt
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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 et vos cum essetis aliquando alienati et inimici sensu in operibus malis
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Once you were alienated from God and were enemies in your minds because of your evil behavior.
22 nunc autem reconciliavit in corpore carnis eius per mortem exhibere vos sanctos et inmaculatos et inreprehensibiles coram ipso
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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—
23 si tamen permanetis in fide fundati et stabiles et inmobiles ab spe evangelii quod audistis quod praedicatum est in universa creatura quae sub caelo est cuius factus sum ego Paulus minister
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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 qui nunc gaudeo in passionibus pro vobis et adimpleo ea quae desunt passionum Christi in carne mea pro corpore eius quod est ecclesia
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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 cuius factus sum ego minister secundum dispensationem Dei quae data est mihi in vos ut impleam verbum Dei
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I have become its servant by the commission God gave me to present to you the word of God in its fullness—
26 mysterium quod absconditum fuit a saeculis et generationibus nunc autem manifestatum est sanctis eius
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the mystery that has been kept hidden for ages and generations, but is now disclosed to the Lord’s people.
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