17. He is before all things, and in him all things are held together.
18. He is the head of the body, the assembly, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.
19. For all the fullness was pleased to dwell in him;
20. and through him to reconcile all things to himself, by him, whether things on the earth, or things in the heavens, having made peace through the blood of his cross.
21. You, being in past times alienated and enemies in your mind in your evil deeds,
22. yet now he has reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without defect and blameless before him,