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¹ Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, to the saints that 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 has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly [places] in Christ:⁴ even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blemish before him in love:⁵ having preappointed 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 freely 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 abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence,⁹ making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him¹⁰ to a dispensation 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, [I say,]¹¹ in whom also we were made a heritage, having been preappointed according to the purpose of him who works all things after the counsel of his will;¹² to the end that we should be to the praise of his glory, we who had before hoped in Christ:¹³ in whom you also, having heard the word of the truth, the gospel of your salvation,- in whom, having also believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise,¹⁴ which is an earnest of our inheritance, to the redemption of [God's] own possession, to the praise of his glory.

¹⁵ For this cause I also, having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which is among you, and the love which [you show] toward all the saints,¹⁶ do not cease to give thanks for you, making mention [of you] in my prayers;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;¹⁸ having the eyes of your heart enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of his calling, what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,¹⁹ and what the exceeding greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to that working of the strength of his might²⁰ 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],²¹ far above all rule, and authority, and power, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come:²² and he put all things in subjection under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things to the church,²³ which is his body, the fullness of him that fills all in all.