1 ⁹ And so, from the day we heard of it, we have not ceased to pray for you, asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, 1 ¹⁰ to lead a life worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God. 1 ¹¹ May you be strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, for all endurance and patience with joy, 1 ¹² giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified us to share in the inheritance of the saints in light. 1 ¹³ He has delivered us from the dominion of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son, 1 ¹⁴ in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. - The Person & Work of Christ.  Col.1.15-20

1 ¹⁵ He is the image of the invisible God, the first-born of all creation; 1 ¹⁶ for in him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or authorities - all things were created through him and for him. 1 ¹⁷ He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. 1 ¹⁸ He is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning, the first-born from the dead, that in everything he might be pre-eminent. 1 ¹⁹ For in him all the fulness of God was pleased to dwell, 1 ²⁰ and through him to reconcile to himself all things, through him whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross.

1 ²¹ And you, who once were estranged and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds, 1 ²² he has now reconciled in his body of flesh by his death, in order to present you holy and blameless and irreproachable before him, 1 ²³ provided that you continue in the faith, stable and steadfast, not shifting from the hope of the gospel which you heard, which has been preached to every creature under heaven, and of which I, Paul, became a minister.