³ Grace, mercy, and peace will be with us, from God the Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ,^[a] the Son of the Father, in truth and love.

¹⁰ If anyone comes to you and doesn’t bring this teaching, don’t receive him into your house, and don’t welcome him,

⁶ yet to us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we for him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we live through him.

⁹ and to make all men see what is the administration^[a] of the mystery which for ages has been hidden in God, who created all things through Jesus Christ,

¹⁶ For by him all things were created in the heavens and on the earth, visible things and invisible things, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things have been created through him and for him.

¹⁷ He is before all things, and in him all things are held together.

¹⁷ He is before all things, and in him all things are held together.