Ephesians 1

¹ Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, to God's holy people who are in Ephesus, the faithful in Christ Jesus:

² Grace and peace to you 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 in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms.

⁴ For he chose us in him before the world was founded, to be holy and blameless before him. In love

⁵ he predestined us for adoption as his children through Jesus Christ, according to the good pleasure of his will,

⁶ to the praise of his glorious grace, which he has freely given us in the Beloved.

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

⁸ that he lavished on us, with all wisdom and understanding.

⁹ He made known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure, which he purposed in Christ,

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

¹¹ In him we were also chosen as an inheritance, having been predestined according to the plan of the one who works out everything in agreement with the purpose of his will,

¹² so that we, who were the first to hope in Christ, might be for the praise of his glory.

¹³ In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation—in him, when you believed, you were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,

¹⁴ who is the down payment guaranteeing our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God's possession, to the praise of his glory.

¹⁵ For this reason, ever since I heard about your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all God's holy people,

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

¹⁷ I pray that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better.

¹⁸ I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance among his holy people,

¹⁹ and his incomparably great power for us who believe. That power is the same as the mighty strength

²⁰ he exerted in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms,

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

²² And God placed all things under his feet and gave him as head over everything to the church,

²³ which is his body, the fullness of him who fills everything in every way.