Ephesians 1

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Paul’s Greeting to the Ephesians

¹Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God,

To the saints in Ephesus,^a the faithful in Christ Jesus:

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

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

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

Spiritual Blessings

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.

³Blessed 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,

⁴For He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless in His presence. In love

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

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

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

⁶to the praise of His glorious grace, which He has freely given us in the Beloved One.

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

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

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

⁸that He lavished on us with all wisdom and understanding.

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

⁹And He has made known to us the mystery of His will according to His good pleasure, which He purposed in Christ

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

¹⁰as a plan for the fullness of time, to bring all things in heaven and on earth together in Christ.

¹⁰for 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—

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,

¹¹in Him, in whom also we obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of the One working all things according to the counsel of His will

¹²in order that we, who were the first to hope in Christ, would be for the praise of His glory.

¹²for us to be to the praise of His glory, the ones having first hoped in Christ,

¹³And in Him, having heard and believed the word of truth—the gospel of your salvation—you were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,

¹³in whom you also, having heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, in whom also having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise,

¹⁴who is the pledge of our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God’s possession, to the praise of His glory.

¹⁴who is the pledge of our inheritance to the redemption of the acquired possession, to the praise of His glory.

Spiritual Wisdom

¹⁵For this reason, ever since I heard about your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints,

¹⁵Because of this, I also, having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus among you and the love to all the saints,

¹⁶I have not stopped giving thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers,

¹⁶do not cease giving thanks for you, making remembrance in my prayers,

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.

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,

¹⁸I ask that the eyes of your heart^a may be enlightened, so that you may know the hope of His calling, the riches of His glorious inheritance in the saints,

¹⁸the eyes your of heart being enlightened for you to know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints,

¹⁹and the surpassing greatness of His power to us who believe. These are in accordance with the working of His mighty strength,

¹⁹and what is the surpassing greatness of His power to us, those believing, according to the working of the power of His strength,

²⁰which He exerted in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly realms,

²⁰which He worked in Christ, having raised Him out from the dead, and having seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly realms,

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.

²¹far above every principality and authority and power and lordship and every name being named, not only in this age, but also in the one about to be.

²²And God put everything under His feet and made Him head over everything for the church,

²²And He subjected all things under His feet and gave Him to be head over all things to the church,

²³which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all.

²³which is His body, the fullness of the One filling all in all.