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¹¹strengthened with all power, according to the might of his glory, to all patience and perseverance with joy;

¹²giving thanks to the Father, who made us fit to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light;

¹³who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the kingdom of the Son of his love;

¹⁴in whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our sins;

¹⁵who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.

¹⁶For in him were all things created, in the heavens and on the earth, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers; all things have been created through him, and to him.

¹⁷He is before all things, and in him all things are held together.

¹⁸He is the head of the body, the assembly, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.

¹⁹For all the fullness was pleased to dwell in him;

²⁰and through him to reconcile all things to himself, having made peace through the blood of his cross. Through him, I say, whether things on the earth, or things in the heavens.