Colossians 1:17-19

American Standard Version

¹⁷ and he is before all things, and in him all things ^[a]consist. ¹⁸ And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; ^[b]that in all things he might have the preeminence. ^19 [c]For it was the good pleasure of the Father that in him should all the fulness dwell;