Colossians 1:19-20
“For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell; And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.”
King James Version · the opening — all 2 verses are below
Christ's blood making peace and reconciling all things to God, the cosmic scope of the atonement's ultimate effect.
Read the whole passage — all 2 verses (KJV)
1:19For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell;
1:20And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.
Fulfillment References
Colossians 2:9 Ephesians 1:10 Revelation 21:5
How Traditions Read This Prophecy
Apostolic (Oneness) Pentecostal'It pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell.' All the fulness of the Godhead dwells bodily in Christ (Col. 2:9) — not a portion, but the whole fulness of the one God. The reconciling of all things is by His cross. The Father was pleased to embody Himself fully in the Son; Jesus is not a fraction of deity but God in His fulness in flesh.
JewishThe language of God's 'fulness' draws on the Hebrew sense of God filling heaven and earth (Jer. 23:24); the indwelling of that fulness in a man is the Christian claim.
CatholicThe fulness of divinity dwelling in Christ and the cosmic reconciliation through His cross — a high-Christology, cosmic-redemption text.
ProtestantThe total deity resident in Christ and the reconciliation of all things by His blood — Christ's supremacy and sufficiency.
AcademicPart of the Colossian 'hymn'; 'all the fullness' (pleroma) may engage proto-gnostic or Hellenistic-Jewish categories, asserting Christ's total sufficiency.
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