¹⁸ He is also the ^(A)head of ^(B)the body, the church; and He is ^(C)the beginning, ^(D)the firstborn from the dead, so that He Himself will come to have first place in everything. ¹⁹ For ^[a]it was ^(E)the Father’s good pleasure for all ^(F)the ^[b]fullness to dwell in Him, ²⁰ and through Him to ^(G)reconcile all things to Himself, ^(H)whether things on earth or things in ^[c]heaven, having made ^(I)peace through ^(J)the blood of His cross.

²¹ And although you were ^(K)previously alienated and hostile in attitude, engaged in evil deeds, ²² yet He has now ^(L)reconciled you in His ^(M)body of flesh through death, in order to ^(N)present you before Him ^(O)holy and blameless and beyond reproach—