¹⁸ And He is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things He may have the preeminence.

¹⁸ And himself is the head of the body—the assembly—who is a beginning, a first-born out of the dead, that he might become in all 'things'—himself—first,

¹⁸ And when it comes to the church, he organizes and holds it together, like a head does a body.