¹³ who did rescue us out of the authority of the darkness, and did translate [us] into the reign of the Son of His love,

¹⁴ in whom we have the redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of the sins,

¹⁵ who is the image of the invisible God, first-born of all creation,

¹⁶ because in him were the all things created, those in the heavens, and those upon the earth, those visible, and those invisible, whether thrones, whether lordships, whether principalities, whether authorities; all things through him, and for him, have been created,

¹⁷ and himself is before all, and the all things in him have consisted.

¹⁸ And himself is the head of the body -- the assembly -- who is a beginning, a first-born out of the dead, that he might become in all [things] -- himself -- first,

¹⁹ because in him it did please all the fulness to tabernacle,

²⁰ and through him to reconcile the all things to himself -- having made peace through the blood of his cross -- through him, whether the things upon the earth, whether the things in the heavens.

²¹ And you -- once being alienated, and enemies in the mind, in the evil works, yet now did he reconcile,

²² in the body of his flesh through the death, to present you holy, and unblemished, and unblameable before himself,