“For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you,

and to desire that you might be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;

That you might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;

Strengthened with all might, according to His glorious power, unto all patience and long-suffering with joyfulness;

Giving thanks to the Father, who has made us fit to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light:

Who has delivered us from the power of darkness, and has taken us into the kingdom of His dear Son:

In whom we have redemption through His blood, even the forgiveness of sins:

Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:

For through Him were all things created; that are in heaven, and that are on earth, visible and invisible; whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers:

All things were created through Him, and for Him: And he is before all things, and by Him all things consist.

And he is the head of the body, the church; who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead;; that in all things he might have the preeminence.  For it pleased the Father that in Him should all fullness dwell.

And, having made peace through the blood of His cross, by Him to reconcile all things to himself;

by Him, I say, whether they are things on earth, or things in heaven.”

 -Colossians 1:9-20