Colossians 1:11-20

Amplified Bible, Classic Edition

¹¹ [We pray] that you may be invigorated and strengthened with all power according to the might of His glory, [to exercise] every kind of endurance and patience (perseverance and forbearance) with joy,

¹² Giving thanks to the Father, Who has qualified and made us fit to share the ^[a]portion which is the inheritance of the saints (God’s holy people) in the Light.

¹³ [The Father] has delivered and ^[b]drawn us to Himself out of the control and the dominion of darkness and has transferred us into the kingdom of the Son ^[c]of His love,

¹⁴ In Whom we have our redemption through His blood, [which means] the forgiveness of our sins.

¹⁵ [Now] He is the ^[d]exact likeness of the unseen God [the visible representation of the invisible]; He is the Firstborn of all creation.

¹⁶ For it was in Him that all things were created, in heaven and on earth, things seen and things unseen, whether thrones, dominions, rulers, or authorities; all things were created and exist through Him [by His service, intervention] and in and for Him.

¹⁷ And He Himself existed before all things, and in Him all things consist (cohere, are held together).^(A)

¹⁸ He also is the Head of [His] body, the church; seeing He is the Beginning, the Firstborn from among the dead, so that He alone in everything and in every respect might occupy the chief place [stand first and be preeminent].

¹⁹ For it has pleased [the Father] that all the divine fullness (the sum total of the divine perfection, powers, and attributes) should dwell in Him ^[e]permanently.

²⁰ And God purposed that through (^[f]by the service, the intervention of) Him [the Son] all things should be completely reconciled ^[g]back to Himself, whether on earth or in heaven, as through Him, [the Father] made peace by means of the blood of His cross.