^{15 Ref} who is the image of the invisible God, first-born of all creation,

^{16 Ref} because in him were the all things created, those in the heavens, and those upon the earth, those visible, and those invisible, whether thrones, whether lordships, whether principalities, whether authorities; all things through him, and for him, have been created,

^{17 Ref} and himself is before all, and the all things in him have consisted.

^{18 Ref} And himself is the head of the body -- the assembly -- who is a beginning, a first-born out of the dead, that he might become in all `things' -- himself -- first,

^{19 Ref} because in him it did please all the fulness to tabernacle,

^{20 Ref} and through him to reconcile the all things to himself -- having made peace through the blood of his cross -- through him, whether the things upon the earth, whether the things in the heavens.