Greetings

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

To the saints in Ephesus and the faithful in Christ Jesus:

²Grace and peace to y’all from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Blessings from Father, Son, and Spirit

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,

⁴just as ʜᴇ chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before ʜɪᴍ in love,

⁵having predestined us to adoption as children through Jesus Christ to ʜɪᴍꜱᴇʟꜰ, according to the satisfaction of ʜɪꜱ desire,

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

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

⁸which ʜᴇ lavished on us in all wisdom and understanding,

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

¹⁰to an administration of the completion of the times, to sum up all things in Christ, the things in the heavens and the things on the earth.

¹¹We were also chosen as ʜɪꜱ inheritance, having been foreordained according to the purpose of ʜɪᴍ who does all things according to the counsel of ʜɪꜱ will,

¹²to the end that we who first put our hope in Christ would be to the praise of ʜɪꜱ glory.

¹³When y’all heard the word of the truth, the gospel of your* salvation, having believed, y’all 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.

Thanksgiving and Prayer

¹⁵For this reason, because I have heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which is among y’all and the love which y’all have toward all the saints,

¹⁶I never cease giving thanks for y’all, making mention of you* in my prayers,

¹⁷that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to y’all a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of ʜɪᴍ,

¹⁸having the eyes of your* hearts enlightened, that y’all may know the hope of ʜɪꜱ calling and the riches of the glory of ʜɪꜱ inheritance in the saints,

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

²⁰which ʜᴇ worked in Christ when ʜᴇ raised him from the dead and seated him at ʜɪꜱ 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 one to come.

²²Hᴇ arranged 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 the one who fills all in all.