²⁰ and through him God was pleased to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, by making peace through the blood of his cross.^(A)

⁹ he has made known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure that he set forth in Christ,^{(A) 10} as a plan for the fullness of time, to gather up all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth.^(B)

¹⁹ that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself,^[a] not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting the message of reconciliation to us.^(A)

²⁶ From one ancestor^[a] he made all peoples to inhabit the whole earth, and he allotted the times of their existence and the boundaries of the places where they would live,^{(A) 27} so that they would search for God^[b] and perhaps fumble about for him and find him—though indeed he is not far from each one of us.^{(B) 28} For ‘In him we live and move and have our being’; as even some of your own poets have said,