23 that the Christ was to suffer+ and, as the first to be resurrected*+ from the dead, he was going to publish light+ both to this people and to the nations.”+

18 and he is the head of the body, the congregation.+ He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead,+ that he might become the one who is first+ in all things;

5 and from Jesus Christ, “the Faithful Witness,”+ “The firstborn from the dead,”+ and “The Ruler of the kings of the earth.”+

To him that loves us+ and that loosed us from our sins by means of his own blood+—