¹⁹ For it has pleased [the Father] that all the divine fullness (the sum total of the divine perfection, powers, and attributes) should dwell in Him ^[a]permanently.

²⁰ And God purposed that through (^[b]by the service, the intervention of) Him [the Son] all things should be completely reconciled ^[c]back to Himself, whether on earth or in heaven, as through Him, [the Father] made peace by means of the blood of His cross.

²¹ And although you at one time were estranged and alienated from Him and were of hostile attitude of mind in your wicked activities,

²² Yet now has [Christ, the Messiah] reconciled [you to God] in the body of His flesh through death, in order to present you holy and faultless and irreproachable in His [the Father’s] presence.

²³ [And this He will do] provided that you continue to ^[d]stay with and in the faith [in Christ], well-grounded and settled and steadfast, not shifting or moving away from the hope [which rests on and is inspired by] the glad tidings (the Gospel), which you heard and which has been preached ^[e][as being designed for and offered without restrictions] to every person under heaven, and of which [Gospel] I, Paul, became a minister.