15. Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:
16. For in him were all things created in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones, or dominations, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him and in him.
17. And he is before all, and by him all things consist.
18. And he is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he may hold the primacy:
19. Because in him, it hath well pleased the Father, that all fullness should dwell;
20. And through him to reconcile all things unto himself, making peace through the blood of his cross, both as to the things that are on earth, and the things that are in heaven.
21. And you, whereas you were some time alienated and enemies in mind in evil works:
22. Yet now he hath reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unspotted, and blameless before him:
23. If so ye continue in the faith, grounded and settled, and immoveable from the hope of the gospel which you have heard, which is preached in all the creation that is under heaven, whereof I Paul am made a minister.
24. Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up those things that are wanting of the sufferings of Christ, in my flesh, for his body, which is the church:
25. Whereof I am made a minister according to the dispensation of God, which is given me towards you, that I may fulfil the word of God:
26. The mystery which hath been hidden from ages and generations, but now is manifested to his saints,
27. To whom God would make known the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ, in you the hope of glory.
28. Whom we preach, admonishing every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus.
29. Wherein also I labour, striving according to his working which he worketh in me in power.