¹⁵ who is image of the invisible God, firstborn of all creation;

¹⁶ because by him were created all things, the things in the heavens and the things upon the earth, the visible and the invisible, whether thrones, or lordships, or principalities, or authorities: all things have been created by him and for him.

¹⁷ And *he* is before all, and all things subsist together by him.

¹⁸ And *he* is the head of the body, the assembly; who is [the] beginning, firstborn from among the dead, that *he* might have the first place in all things:

¹⁹ for in him all the fulness [of the Godhead] was pleased to dwell,