Ephesians 1:1 - 1:23 | ASV

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¹Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, to the saints that 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 hath 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 should be holy and without blemish before him in love:

⁵having foreordained us unto adoption as sons through Jesus Christ unto himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,

⁶to the praise of the glory of his grace, which he freely bestowed on us in the Beloved:

⁷in whom 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 unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him

¹⁰unto a dispensation of the fulness of the times, to sum up all things in Christ, the things in the heavens, and the things upon the earth; in him, `I say,'

¹¹in whom also we were made a heritage, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his will;

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

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

¹⁴which is an earnest of our inheritance, unto the redemption of `God's' own possession, unto 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 `ye show' toward all the saints,

¹⁶cease not 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 unto you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him;

¹⁸having the eyes of your heart enlightened, that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

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

²⁰which he wrought 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, 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:

²²and he put all things in subjection under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things to the church,

²³which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.

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