Colossians 1:19-29 ▼

19 because all the fullness was pleased to dwell in Him,

20 and through Him to reconcile all things to Himself—having made peace through the blood of His Cross—through Him, whether the things on the earth, whether the things in the heavens.

21 And you—once being alienated, and enemies in the mind, in the evil works, yet now He reconciled,

22 in the body of His flesh through death, to present you holy, and unblemished, and unblameable before Himself,

23 if you also remain in the faith, being founded and settled, and not moved away from the hope of the good news, which you heard, which was preached in all the creation that [is] under Heaven, of which I, Paul, became a servant.

24 I now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up the things lacking of the tribulations of the Christ in my flesh for His body, which is the Assembly,

25 of which I became a servant according to the dispensation of God, that was given to me for you, to fulfill the word of God,

26 the secret that has been hid from the ages and from the generations, but now was revealed to His holy ones,

27 to whom God willed to make known what [is] the riches of the glory of this secret among the nations—which is Christ in you, the hope of the glory,

28 whom we proclaim, warning every man, and teaching every man, in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus,

29 for which I also labor, striving according to His working that is working in me in power.