The Firstborn of All Creation
15 Who is the aimage of the binvisible God, the cfirstborn of all creation.
16 For ain Him all things were created, aboth in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether bthrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—call things have been created through Him and for Him.
17 And He ais before all things,
And in Him all things hold together.
18 And He is the ahead of bthe body, the church;
Who is cthe beginning, dthe firstborn from the dead, so that He Himself will come to have first place in everything.