Colossians 1:11-20
Holman Christian Standard Bible
11 May you be strengthened(A) with all power,(B) according to His glorious(C) might, for all endurance and patience, with joy 12 giving thanks to the Father, who has enabled you[a] to share in the saints’[b] inheritance in the light.(D) 13 He has rescued(E) us from the domain of darkness and transferred us into the kingdom(F) of the Son(G) He loves.(H) 14 We have redemption,[c] the forgiveness of sins, in Him.
The Centrality of Christ
15 He is the image of the invisible God,(I)
the firstborn over all creation.[d](J)
16 For everything was created by Him,(K)
in heaven and on earth,
the visible and the invisible,
whether thrones or dominions
or rulers or authorities—
all things have been created through Him and for Him.(L)
17 He is before all things,(M)
and by Him all things(N) hold together.
18 He is also the head of the body, the church;
He is the beginning,(O)
the firstborn from the dead,(P)
so that He might come to have
first place in everything.
19 For God was pleased to have
all His fullness(Q) dwell in Him,(R)
20 and through Him to reconcile
everything to Himself
by making peace(S)
through the blood(T) of His cross[e](U)—
whether things on earth or things in heaven.
Footnotes
- Colossians 1:12 Other mss read us
- Colossians 1:12 Or holy ones’
- Colossians 1:14 Other mss add through His blood
- Colossians 1:15 The One who is preeminent over all creation
- Colossians 1:20 Other mss add through Him
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