In Context

14 in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins;

15 who is image of the invisible God, firstborn of all creation;

16 because by him were created all things, the things in the heavens and the things upon the earth, the visible and the invisible, whether thrones, or lordships, or principalities, or authorities: all things have been created by him and for him.

17 And he is before all, and all things subsist together by him.

18 And he is the head of the body, the assembly; who is the beginning, firstborn from among the dead, that he might have the first place in all things:

19 for in him all the fulness of the Godhead was pleased to dwell,

Colossians 1:17 in Other Translations