Colossians 1:16-18

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

¹⁶ For 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.

¹⁷ And he is before all, and by him all things consist.

¹⁸ And 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: