Colossians 1:17-19

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

¹⁷ He himself is before all things, and in^[a] him all things hold together. ¹⁸ He is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that he might come to have first place in everything. ¹⁹ For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell,