³ All things were made through him. Without him, nothing was made that has been made.

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.

² has at the end of these days spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made the worlds.