Colossians 1:16,17 - All things were created through Him and for Him

1:16

These verse elaborates on the primacy of Christ. “In Him all things were created”, and this includes things in heaven and on earth, ie nothing is excluded. It includes the visible and the invisible. And it includes thrones, authorities, rulers. Absolutely everything was created through Him and for Him. Paul is going to great lengths to stress that there is nothing that is not subject to Jesus, that was not created by and for Him. 

1:17

“He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together”. The first part of the sentence essentially restates what has been said, There is nothing at all that is greater than Christ, and that He is not a created being. The second part states that Christ holds the whole universe together. There is no deism here, where God starts the show off and then leaves it to get on with it. Christ actively holds everything together. This does not mean the universe does not function according to the laws of physics (which were also created through Christ). The universe is not merely physical. There are two main wrong worldviews. In the West the wrong worldview is to see the universe, and you and me, in purely physical or material terms. The predominant wrong view at the time was gnostic type ideas which did believe in a spiritual dimension, but saw the material world as inherently evil. The Biblical worldview is that there is both a spiritual and material dimension, they were both created good, and in Christ are redeemed. In Christ the two work together in harmony.