Ephesians 1:3-14
3 aBlessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in bthe heavenly places in Christ, 4 just as aHe chose us in Him before bthe foundation of the world, that we would be choly and blameless before Him din love, 5 by apredestining us to badoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, caccording to the good pleasure of His will, 6 ato the praise of the glory of His grace, which He graciously bestowed on us in bthe Beloved. 7 aIn Him we have bredemption cthrough His blood, the dforgiveness of our transgressions, according to ethe riches of His grace 8 which He caused to abound to us in all wisdom and insight, 9 amaking known to us the mystery of His will, baccording to His good pleasure which He cpurposed in Him 10 for an administration of athe fullness of the times, that is, bthe summing up of all things in Christ, things in the heavens and things on the earth in Him. 11 In Him, we also ahave been made an inheritance, having been bpredestined caccording to the purpose of Him who works all things daccording to the counsel of His will, 12 to the end that we who first have hoped in Christ would be ato the praise of His glory. 13 In Him, you also, after listening to athe word of truth, the gospel of your salvation—having also believed, you were bsealed in Him with cthe Holy Spirit of promise, 14 who is agiven as a pledge of bour inheritance, unto the credemption of dGod’s own possession, eto the praise of His glory.
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