Ephesians 1:1-13 ▼

1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, to the saints who are in Ephesus, and the 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, Who blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ;

4 according as He chose us in Him before the founding of a world, that we should be holy and without blemish before Him in love;

5 having predestinated us to the adoption of 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 bestowed on us in the Beloved;

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

8 which He made to superabound toward us in all wisdom and understanding;

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

10 for a dispensation of the fulness of the seasons, to sum up all things in Christ, the things in the heavens and the things on the earth; in Him,

11 in Whom we also were made a heritage, having been predestinated according to the purpose of Him Who worketh all things after the counsel of His own will;

12 that we might be to the praise of His glory, we who had before hoped in Christ;

13 in Whom ye also—after having heard the word of the truth, the Gospel of your salvation, in Whom having also believed—were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise,