JPS_ASV_Byz(i)
15 who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation,
16 for in him were all things created, in the heavens and upon the earth, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers, all things have been created through him, and unto him,
17 and he is before all things, and in 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 might have the preeminence.