"To them God chose to make known how great among the Gentiles are the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ in you." (Colossians 1:27) how great... are the riches... of the glory... of this mystery which is CHRIST IN YOU, the hope of glory. What a staggering, life-giving...
"And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together. And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent" (Colossians 1:17-18).
"He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. 16 For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through...
"But the debt was so great that while man alone owed it, only God could pay it, so that the same person must be both man and God. Thus it was necessary for God to take manhood into the unity of his person, so that he who in his own nature ought to pay and could not should be in a person...
