…God in all his fullness
was pleased to live in Christ,
and through him God reconciled
everything to himself.
He made peace with everything in heaven and on earth
by means of Christ’s blood on the cross.
This includes you who were once far away from God.
You were his enemies,
separated from him by your evil thoughts and actions.
Yet now he has reconciled you to himself
through the death of Christ in his physical body.
As a result,
he has brought you into his own presence,
and you are holy and blameless
as you stand before him without a single fault.
