Colossians 1:15-18

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

The Supremacy of Christ

¹⁵ He is the image of the invisible God, the first-born^[a] of all creation; ¹⁶ for in him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or authorities—all things were created through him and for him. ¹⁷ He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. ¹⁸ He is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning, the first-born from the dead, that in everything he^[b] might be pre-eminent.