| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | Berean Standard Bible |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, To the saints in Ephesus, the faithful in Christ Jesus: |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4For He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless in His presence. In love |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5He predestined us for adoption as His sons through Jesus Christ, according to the good pleasure of His will, |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6to the praise of His glorious grace, which He has freely given us in the Beloved One. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8that He lavished on us with all wisdom and understanding. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9And He has made known to us the mystery of His will according to His good pleasure, which He purposed in Christ |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10as a plan for the fullness of time, to bring all things in heaven and on earth together in Christ. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11In Him we were also chosen as God’s own, having been predestined according to the plan of Him who works out everything by the counsel of His will, |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12in order that we, who were the first to hope in Christ, would be for the praise of His glory. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13And in Him, having heard and believed the word of truth—the gospel of your salvation—you were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14who is the pledge of our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God’s possession, to the praise of His glory. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15For this reason, ever since I heard about your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints, |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16I have not stopped giving thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers, |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in your knowledge of Him. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18I ask that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you may know the hope of His calling, the riches of His glorious inheritance in the saints, |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19and the surpassing greatness of His power to us who believe. These are in accordance with the working of His mighty strength, |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20which He exerted in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly realms, |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21far above all rule and authority, power and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in the present age but also in the one to come. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22And God put everything under His feet and made Him head over everything for the church, |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all. |
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