Ephesians 1

¹Paul, an apostle of Christ+Jesus through the will of God, to the saints who are at Ephesus, and the faithful in Christ Jesus:

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

³Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,

⁴even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without defect before him in love,

⁵having predestined us for adoption as children through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his desire,

⁶to the praise of the glory of his grace, by which he freely gave us favor in the Beloved.

⁷In him we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace

⁸which he made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence,

⁹making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him

¹⁰to 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.

¹¹We were also assigned an inheritance in him, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who does all things after the counsel of his will,

¹²to the end that we should be to the praise of his glory, we who had before hoped in Christ.

¹³In him 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 promised Holy Spirit,

¹⁴who is a pledge of our inheritance, to the redemption of God’s own possession, to the praise of his glory.

¹⁵For 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,

¹⁶don’t cease to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers,

¹⁷that 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,

¹⁸having the eyes of your hearts+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,

¹⁹and what is the exceeding greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to that working of the strength of his might

²⁰which he worked in Christ when he raised him from the dead and made him to sit at his right hand in the heavenly places,

²¹far above all rule, authority, power, dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age, but also in that which is to come.

²²He put all things in subjection under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things for the assembly,

²³which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.