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Blessed be God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with all manner of spiritual blessings in heavenly things by Christ, accordingly as he had chosen us in him before the foundation of the world was laid, to be holy and without blame before him through love. And he predestined us through Jesus Christ to be his heirs, in accordance with his pleasure and will, to the praise of the glory of the grace with which he has made us accepted in the Beloved, by whom we have redemption through his blood; that is, the forgiveness of sins, consonant with the riches of his grace, which grace he shed on us abundantly in all wisdom and understanding.

And as it pleased him, he has made known to us the mystery of his will, 10 and purposed in himself to have it declared when the time was full come – namely that all things, both the things that are in heaven and also the things that are in earth, will be gathered together in Christ;

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