Colossians 1

I give thanks to you, my Heavenly Father, that you have made me meet (fit, able, qualified) to be a partaker of the inheritance of the saints in light. I am thankful that you have delivered me from the power of darkness and have translated (moved from one place) me into the kingdom of your dear son, my Lord Jesus Christ, in whom I have redemption through His blood, even the forgiveness of sins.

My Lord Jesus is the image of the invisible God. He is the first born (first in time and first in rank) of every creature. By him were all things created that are in heaven or that are in earth; all things were created by him and for him. He is before all things and by him all things consist. He is the head of his body, the church. He is the beginning, the first born from the dead that in all things he might have preeminence. It pleased the Father that in the Lord Jesus all fulness should dwell.