Colossians 1:17-19

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¹⁷ And he is ahead, prior to all else
and in him all things hold together;
¹⁸ and he himself is supreme, the head
over the body, the church.
He is the start of it all,
firstborn from realms of the dead;
so in all things he might be the chief.
¹⁹ For in him all the Fullness was glad to dwell