God’s Rich Blessings

Praise the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavens.(A) 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] He predestined us to be adopted through Jesus Christ for Himself, according to His favor and will, to the praise of His glorious grace(C) that He favored us with in the Beloved.(D)

We have redemption in Him(E) through His blood, the forgiveness(F) of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace that He lavished on us with all wisdom and understanding. 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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Footnotes

  1. Ephesians 1:4 Vv. 3-14 are 1 sentence in Gk.
  2. Ephesians 1:4 Or In His sight in love
  3. Ephesians 1:10 Or dispensation; lit house law (Gk oikonomia)
  4. Ephesians 1:10 Lit the fulfillment of times

Praise to God for Spiritual Blessings

Blessed is[a] the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, just as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him in love,[b] having predestined us to adoption through Jesus Christ to himself according to the good pleasure of his will, to the praise of the glory of his grace that he bestowed on us in the beloved, in whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace, that he caused to abound to us in all wisdom and insight, making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure that he purposed in him, 10 for the administration of the fullness of times, to bring together all things in Christ, the things in the heavens and the things on the earth, in him

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Footnotes

  1. Ephesians 1:3 Or “blessed be
  2. Ephesians 1:4 Or “before him, having predestined us in love” (the phrase “in love” could go either with v. 4 or v. 5)