just as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him in love,[a] having predestined us to adoption through Jesus Christ to himself according to the good pleasure of his will,

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Footnotes

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