Colossians 1:17-19

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

¹⁷ And he is before all, and by him all things consist.

¹⁸ And he is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he may hold the primacy:

¹⁹ Because in him, it hath well pleased the Father, that all fullness should dwell;