Him we proclaim, warning everyone and teaching everyone with all wisdom, that we may present everyone mature in Christ.
"And you, who once were alienated and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds, he has now reconciled..."
Jesus, as God is supreme over creation, as its maker, and over redemption, as the God-man who submitted himself to death for us.
To rightly walk with God, we need to be built up in the knowledge of his will.
The ideas and instructions laid out here are given for our good, so that we’d be rooted in Christ and built up in his truth.