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

13 who has delivered us from the authority of darkness and translated us into the kingdom of the Son of His love,

14 in whom we have redemption through His blood, the remission of sins.

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

16 For by Him all things were created that are in Heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities. All things were created through Him and for Him.

17 And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist.