Colossians 1:17-21

He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together.

He is also the head of the body, the church; and He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that He Himself will come to have first place in everything.

For it was the Father’s good pleasure for all the fullness to dwell in Him,

and through Him to reconcile all things to Himself, whether things on earth or things in heaven, having made peace through the blood of His cross.

And although you were previously alienated and hostile in attitude, engaged in evil deeds,