Paul's Letter to the Ephesians, Chapter 1
{1:1} Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God,
to the saints who are at Ephesus, and the faithful in Christ Jesus:
{1:2} Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus
Christ.
{1:3} Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who
has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in
Christ; {1:4} even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the
world, that we would be holy and without blemish before him in love;
{1:5} having predestined us for adoption as children through Jesus
Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his desire, {1:6}
to the praise of the glory of his grace, by which he freely bestowed
favor on us in the Beloved, {1:7} in whom we have our redemption
through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the
riches of his grace, {1:8} which he made to abound toward us in all
wisdom and prudence, {1:9} making known to us the mystery of his will,
according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him {1:10} to an
administration of the fullness of the times, to sum up all things in
Christ, the things in the heavens, and the things on the earth, in
him; {1:11} in whom also we were assigned an inheritance, having been
foreordained according to the purpose of him who works all things
after the counsel of his will; {1:12} to the end that we should be to
the praise of his glory, we who had before hoped in Christ: {1:13} in
whom you also, having heard the word of the truth, the Good News of
your salvation--in whom, having also believed, you were sealed with
the Holy Spirit of promise, {1:14} who is a pledge of our inheritance,
to the redemption of God's own possession, to the praise of his glory.
{1:15} For this cause I also, having heard of the faith in the Lord
Jesus which is among you, and the love which you have toward all the
saints, {1:16} don't cease to give thanks for you, making mention of
you in my prayers, {1:17} that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the
Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in
the knowledge of him; {1:18} having the eyes of your [1>]hearts[<1]
enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and
what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,
{1:19} and what is the exceeding greatness of his power toward us who
believe, according to that working of the strength of his might {1:20}
which he worked in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and made
him to sit at his right hand in the heavenly places, {1:21} far above
all rule, and authority, and power, and dominion, and every name that
is named, not only in this age, but also in that which is to come.
{1:22} He put all things in subjection under his feet, and gave him to
be head over all things for the assembly, {1:23} which is his body,
the fullness of him who fills all in all.
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Footnotes:
[1] {1:18} TR reads "understanding" instead of "hearts"
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