Ephesians 1

¹Ephesians 1:1. Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, To the saints in Ephesus, the faithful in Christ Jesus:²Ephesians 1:2. Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

³Ephesians 1:3. 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.⁴Ephesians 1:4. For He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless in His presence. In love⁵Ephesians 1:5. He predestined us for adoption as His sons through Jesus Christ, according to the good pleasure of His will,⁶Ephesians 1:6. to the praise of His glorious grace, which He has freely given us in the Beloved One.⁷Ephesians 1:7. In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace⁸Ephesians 1:8. that He lavished on us with all wisdom and understanding.⁹Ephesians 1:9. And He has made known to us the mystery of His will according to His good pleasure, which He purposed in Christ¹⁰Ephesians 1:10. as a plan for the fullness of time, to bring all things in heaven and on earth together in Christ.¹¹Ephesians 1:11. In 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,¹²Ephesians 1:12. in order that we, who were the first to hope in Christ, would be for the praise of His glory.¹³Ephesians 1:13. And in Him, having heard and believed the word of truth—the gospel of your salvation—you were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,¹⁴Ephesians 1:14. who is the pledge of our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God’s possession, to the praise of His glory.

¹⁵Ephesians 1:15. For this reason, ever since I heard about your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints,¹⁶Ephesians 1:16. I have not stopped giving thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers,¹⁷Ephesians 1:17. that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in your knowledge of Him.¹⁸Ephesians 1:18. I ask that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you may know the hope of His calling, the riches of His glorious inheritance in the saints,¹⁹Ephesians 1:19. and the surpassing greatness of His power to us who believe. These are in accordance with the working of His mighty strength,

²⁰Ephesians 1:20. which He exerted in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly realms,²¹Ephesians 1:21. far 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.²²Ephesians 1:22. And God put everything under His feet and made Him head over everything for the church,²³Ephesians 1:23. which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all.