Ephesians 1:3-10
Holman Christian Standard Bible
God’s Rich Blessings
3 Praise the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavens.(A) 4 For He chose us in Him, before the foundation of the world, to be holy and blameless in His sight.[a](B) In love[b] 5 He predestined us to be adopted through Jesus Christ for Himself, according to His favor and will, 6 to the praise of His glorious grace(C) that He favored us with in the Beloved.(D)
7 We have redemption in Him(E) through His blood, the forgiveness(F) of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace 8 that He lavished on us with all wisdom and understanding. 9 He made known to us the mystery of His will,(G) according to His good pleasure that He planned in Him(H) 10 for the administration[c] of the days of fulfillment[d]—to bring everything together in the Messiah,(I) both things in heaven and things on earth(J) in Him.(K)
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- Ephesians 1:4 Vv. 3-14 are 1 sentence in Gk.
- Ephesians 1:4 Or In His sight in love
- Ephesians 1:10 Or dispensation; lit house law (Gk oikonomia)
- Ephesians 1:10 Lit the fulfillment of times
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