6 which has come to you, just as ain all the world also it is constantly bearing bfruit and multiplying, just as it has been doing in you also since the day you cheard and understood the grace of God in truth; 7 just as you learned it from aEpaphras, our bbeloved fellow slave, who is a faithful servant of Christ on our behalf, 8 who also informed us of your alove in the Spirit.
9 For this reason also, asince the day we heard, bwe have not ceased to pray for you and to ask that you may be filled with the cfull knowledge of His will in all spiritual dwisdom and understanding, 10 so that you may awalk in a manner worthy of the Lord, bto please Him in all respects, cbearing fruit in every good work and multiplying in the full knowledge of God; 11 abeing strengthened with all power, according to His glorious might, for the attaining of all steadfastness and patience; bjoyously 12 giving thanks to athe Father, who has qualified us to share in bthe inheritance of the saints in clight. 13 Who rescued us from the aauthority of darkness, and transferred us to the kingdom of bthe Son of His love, 14 ain whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
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.
19 For in Him all athe fullness of God bwas pleased to dwell,
20 And through Him to areconcile all things to Himself, having made bpeace through cthe blood of His cross—through Him—dwhether things on earth or things in heaven.
21 And although you were aformerly alienated and enemies in mind and in evil deeds, 22 but now He areconciled you in the bbody of His flesh through death, in order to cpresent you before Him dholy and blameless and beyond reproach— 23 if indeed you continue in the faith firmly agrounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the bhope of the gospel, which you have heard, which was proclaimed cin all creation under heaven, dand of which I, Paul, was made a eminister.