19For it was the good pleasure [of the Father] that in him should all the fulness dwell;
20and through him to reconcile all things unto himself, having made peace through the blood of his cross; through him, [I say], whether things upon the earth, or things in the heavens.
21And you, being in time past alienated and enemies in your mind in your evil works,
22yet now hath he reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without blemish and unreproveable before him:
23if so be that ye continue in the faith, grounded and stedfast, and not moved away from the hope of the gospel which ye heard, which was preached in all creation under heaven; whereof I Paul was made a minister.
24Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body`s sake, which is the church;
25whereof I was made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which was given me to you-ward, to fulfil the word of God,
