Colossians 1:17-29 ▼

17 And he is before all thynges, and in hym all thynges consist.

18 And he is the head of the body of the Churche: he is the begynnyng, the first borne of the dead, that in all thynges he myght haue the preeminence.

19 For it pleased the father that in hym shoulde all fulnesse dwell,

20 And by hym to reconcile all thynges vnto hym selfe, & to set at peace through the blood of his crosse by hym, both the thynges in earth, and thynges in heauen,

21 And you which were sometyme straungers, and enemies, by cogitation in euyll workes, hath he nowe yet reconciled,

22 In the body of his fleshe, through death, to present you holye, and vnblameable, & without fault in his syght:

23 If ye continue grounded & stablisshed in the fayth, and be not moued away from the hope of the Gospell, which ye haue hearde howe it is preached to euery creature which is vnder heauen, wherof I Paul am made a minister.

24 Nowe iowe I in my sufferynges for you, and fulfyll that which is behynde of the passions of Christe, in my fleshe, for his bodyes sake, which is ye Church:

25 Wherof I am made a minister, accordyng to the dispensation of God, which is geuen to me to youwarde, to fulfyll the worde of God:

26 The misterie hyd sence the worlde began, and sence the begynnyng of generations: but nowe is opened to his saintes:

27 To whom God woulde make knowe what is the riches of the glorie of this misterie among the gentiles, which is Christe in you, the hope of glorie:

28 Whom we preache, warnyng euery man, and teachyng euery man in all wisdome, to present all men perfect in Christe Iesus:

29 Wherunto I also labour striuyng, according to his workyng which worketh in me mightylie.