^{15 Ref} who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.

^{16 Ref} For by him were all things created, in the heavens and on the earth, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers; all things have been created through him, and for him.

^{17 Ref} He is before all things, and in him all things are held together.

^{18 Ref} He is the head of the body, the assembly, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.