⁴ and into an inheritance^(A) that can never perish, spoil or fade.^(B) This inheritance is kept in heaven for you,^(C)

⁴ Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises,^(A) so that through them you may participate in the divine nature,^(B) having escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.^(C)

⁹ For in Christ all the fullness^(A) of the Deity lives in bodily form, ¹⁰ and in Christ you have been brought to fullness. He is the head^(B) over every power and authority.^{(C) 11} In him you were also circumcised^(D) with a circumcision not performed by human hands. Your whole self ruled by the flesh^[a](E) was put off when you were circumcised by^[b] Christ, ¹² having been buried with him in baptism,^(F) in which you were also raised with him^(G) through your faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.^(H)

¹³ When you were dead in your sins^(I) and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made you^[c] alive^(J) with Christ. He forgave us all our sins,^{(K) 14} having canceled the charge of our legal indebtedness,^(L) which stood against us and condemned us; he has taken it away, nailing it to the cross.^{(M) 15} And having disarmed the powers and authorities,^(N) he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them^(O) by the cross.^[d]

²² And in him you too are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by his Spirit.^(A)

²⁰ I have been crucified with Christ^(A) and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me.^(B) The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God,^(C) who loved me^(D) and gave himself for me.^(E)

²⁵ For he must reign^(A) until he has put all his enemies under his feet.^{(B) 26} The last enemy to be destroyed is death.^{(C) 27} For he “has put everything under his feet.”^[a](D) Now when it says that “everything” has been put under him, it is clear that this does not include God himself, who put everything under Christ.^{(E) 28} When he has done this, then the Son himself will be made subject to him who put everything under him,^(F) so that God may be all in all.^(G)