12 giving thanks to the Father, who has made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light.

13 [For He] has delivered us from the power of darkness and has translated [us] into the kingdom of His dear Son;

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

15 who is [the] image of the invisible God, [the] First-born of all creation.

16 For all things were created in Him, the things in the heavens, and the things on the earth, the visible and the invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers, all things were created through Him and for Him.

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