12 Give thanks to the Father, who made us partakers of the inheritance of the holy ones in the light.

13 He rescued us from the power of darkness, and transferred us into the kingdom of the Son of his love the Son he dearly loves.

14 We have in him our redemption and the forgiveness of our sins.

15 He is the image likenessrepresentation of the invisible God. He is the firstborn Greek: prototokos: childbirth, offspring of all creation.

16 All things in the heavens and upon the earth where created through him. The things visible and invisible were created through him. Whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers; all things have been created through him, and for him.

17 He is before all things, and through him all things originate.