14In whom we have our salvation, the forgiveness of sins:
15Who is the image of the unseen God coming into existence before all living things;
16For by him all things were made, in heaven and on earth, things seen and things unseen, authorities, lords, rulers, and powers; all things were made by him and for him;
17He is before all things, and in him all things have being.
18And he is the head of the body, the church: the starting point of all things, the first to come again from the dead; so that in all things he might have the chief place.
19For God in full measure was pleased to be in him;
20Through him uniting all things with himself, having made peace through the blood of his cross; through him, I say, uniting all things which are on earth or in heaven.
