God’s Rich Blessings

³ Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavens in Christ.^{(A) 4} For he chose us in him, before the foundation of the world, to be holy and blameless in love before him.^{[a](B) 5} He predestined us to be adopted as sons through Jesus Christ for himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, ⁶ to the praise of his glorious grace^(C) that he lavished on us in the Beloved One.^(D)

¹¹ In him we have also received an inheritance,^[a] because we were predestined^(A) according to the plan of the one who works out everything in agreement with the purpose of his will, ¹² so that we who had already put our hope^(B) in Christ might bring praise to his glory.^(C)