For he chose us in him, before the foundation of the world, to be holy and blameless in love before him.[a](A) He predestined us to be adopted as sons through Jesus Christ for himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, to the praise of his glorious grace(B) that he lavished on us in the Beloved One.(C)

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  1. 1:4 Or in his sight. In love

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