Ephesians 1:1-10 ▼

1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, To the saints being in Ephesus, and faithful in Christ Jesus:

2 Grace to you⁺ and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the One having blessed us with every spiritual blessing in Christ in the heavenly realms,

4 just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world for us to be holy and blameless before Him, in love

5 having predestined us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will,

6 to the praise of the glory of His grace, which He graciously gave us in the Beloved One,

7 in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of trespasses, according to the riches of His grace,

8 which He abounded to us in all wisdom and understanding,

9 having made known to us the mystery of His will according to His good pleasure, which He purposed in Him

10 for the administration of the fullness of the times, to bring together all things in Christ—the things in the heavens and the things upon the earth—