Beginning

1 ¶ Paul, apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the saints who are at Ephesus and to the faithful in Christ Jesus:

² Grace be to you and peace from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

³ ¶ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly things in Christ;

⁴ according as he has chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blemish before him in charity;

⁵ having marked out beforehand the way for us to be adopted as sons by Jesus Christ in himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,

⁶ to the praise of the glory of his grace, in which he has made us accepted in the beloved;

⁷ in whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins according to the riches of his grace,

⁸ which has over abounded in us in all wisdom and prudence;

⁹ having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he has purposed in himself,

¹⁰ that in the dispensation of the fulfillment of the times he might restore all things by the Christ, both those which are in heaven and those which are on earth,

¹¹ in him in whom likewise we have obtained an inheritance, having had the way marked out beforehand according to the purpose of him who works all things after the counsel of his own will,

¹² so that we should be to the praise of his glory, those of us who first trusted in the Christ.

¹³ In whom ye also trusted, hearing the word of truth, the gospel of your saving health; in whom also after ye believed, ye were sealed with that Holy Spirit of the promise,

¹⁴ which is the earnest of our inheritance unto the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.

¹⁵ ¶ Therefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and charity unto all the saints,

¹⁶ cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers;

¹⁷ that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him;

¹⁸ illuminating the eyes of your understanding, that ye may know what is the hope of his calling and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints

¹⁹ and what is the exceeding greatness of his power in us who believe, by the operation of the power of his strength,

²⁰ which operated in the Christ, raising him from the dead and setting him at his own right hand in the heavenly places,

²¹ far above all principality and power and might and dominion and every name that is named, not only in this age, but also in that which is to come,

²² And has put all things under his feet and gave him to be the head over all things to the congregation, {Gr. ekklesia – called out ones}

²³ which is his body, and he is the fullness of her: who fills all things in everyone.

2 ¶ And he has made you alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins,

² in which in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the will of the prince of the power of this air, the spirit that now works in the sons of disobedience,

³ among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind and were by nature the children of wrath, even as all the others.

⁴ ¶ But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great charity with which he loved us,

⁵ even as we were dead in sins, he has made us alive together with the Christ (by whose grace ye are saved)

⁶ and has raised us up together and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus,

⁷ That in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.

⁸ For by grace are ye saved through faith and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God,

⁹ Not of works, lest any man should boast.

¹⁰ For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God has prepared that we should walk in them.

¹¹ ¶ Therefore remember that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who were called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh, which is made by hands,

¹² that at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world,

¹³ but now in Christ Jesus ye who at another time were far off are made near by the blood of the Christ.

¹⁴ ¶ For he is our peace, who of both has made one, breaking down the middle wall of separation,

¹⁵ abolishing in his flesh the enmity, which was the law of commandments in the order of rites, to edify in himself the two in one new man, making peace,

¹⁶ and to reconcile both with God by the cross {Gr. stauros – stake} in one body, having slain the enmity thereby;

¹⁷ and he came and preached peace unto you who were afar off and to those that were near.

¹⁸ For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father.

¹⁹ Now therefore ye are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints and of the household of God,

²⁰ and are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief cornerstone,

²¹ in whom all the building fitly framed together grows unto a holy temple in the Lord,

²² in whom ye also are being built together for the habitation of God in the Spirit.

3 ¶ For this cause I, Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles,

² if ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which has been given to me in you,

³ how that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery (as I wrote above in a few words,

⁴ by which, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of the Christ),

⁵ which in other generations was not made known unto the sons of men as it is now revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets in the Spirit,

⁶ that the Gentiles should be fellow heirs and of the same body and partakers of his promise in the Christ by the gospel,

⁷ of which I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God given unto me by the operation of his power.

⁸ Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of the Christ

⁹ and to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the ages has been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ.

¹⁰ To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the congregation {Gr. ekklesia – called out ones} the manifold wisdom of God,

¹¹ according to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord,

¹² In whom we have security and access with confidence by the faith of him.

¹³ Therefore I desire that ye faint not at my tribulations for you, which is your glory.

¹⁴ ¶ For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ

¹⁵ (of whom the whole family in the heavens and on earth is named),

¹⁶ that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man,

¹⁷ that the Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith, that ye, being rooted and grounded in charity,

¹⁸ may be able to well comprehend with all saints what is the breadth and length and depth and height

¹⁹ and to know the charity of the Christ, which passes all knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fullness of God.

²⁰ Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,

²¹ unto him be glory in the congregation {Gr. ekklesia – called out ones} by Christ Jesus throughout all generations of the ages of the ages. Amen.