Colossians 1:20

²⁰and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.t

Colossians 1 opens Paul’s letter to a young church he did not plant, facing pressure from false teaching. After a warm thanksgiving and prayer for their growth, Paul launches into one of the most exalted Christological passages in the New Testament: Christ as the image of God, the a