Ephesians 1:3–14

GOD’S RICH BLESSINGS

³Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavens in Christ.^{f 4}For he chose us in him, before the foundation of the world, to be holy and blameless in love before him.^{Cf 5}He predestined us to be adopted as sons through Jesus Christ for himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, ⁶to the praise of his glorious grace^g that he lavished on us in the Beloved One.^h

⁷In him we have redemptionⁱ through his blood, the forgiveness^j of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace ⁸that he richly poured out on us with all wisdom and understanding.^{D 9}He made known to us the mystery of his will,^k according to his good pleasure that he purposed in Christ^{l 10}as a plan for the right time^E—to bring everything together in Christ,^m both things in heaven and things on earthⁿ in him.^o

¹¹In him we have also received an inheritance,^F because we were predestined^p according to the plan of the one who works out everything in agreement with the purpose of his will, ¹²so that we who had already put our hope^q in Christ might bring praise to his glory.^r

¹³In him you also were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit^s when you heard the word of truth,^t the gospel of your salvation, and when you believed. ¹⁴The Holy Spirit is the down payment^u of our inheritance, until the redemption of the possession, to the praise of his glory.