How to read itThis reading often teaches Christians how to live with steadiness, charity, and faith. Look for one clear encouragement or warning you can carry into the day.
12Giving thanks to God the Father, who has made us worthy to be partakers of the lot of the saints in light:
13Who has rescued us from the power of darkness, and has translated us into the kingdom of the Son of his love,
14In whom we have rescue through his blood, the remission of sins;
15Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:
16For in him were all things created in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones, or dominations, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him and in him.
17And he is before all, and by him all things consist.
18And he is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he may hold the primacy:
19Because in him, it has well pleased the Father, that all fullness should dwell;
20And through him to reconcile all things to himself, making peace through the blood of his cross, both as to the things that are on earth, and the things that are in heaven.