Ephesians 1–2

Chapter 1

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, by the will of God, to all the saints who are at Ephesus and to the faithful in Christ Jesus.

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

³Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with spiritual blessings in heavenly places, in Christ:

⁴As he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and unspotted in his sight in charity.

⁵Who hath predestinated us unto the adoption of children through Jesus Christ unto himself: according to the purpose of his will:

⁶Unto the praise of the glory of his grace, in which he hath graced us, in his beloved son.

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

⁸Which hath superabounded in us, in all wisdom and prudence,

⁹That he might make known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure, which he hath purposed in him,

¹⁰In the dispensation of the fulness of times, to re-establish all things in Christ, that are in heaven and on earth, in him.

¹¹In whom we also are called by lot, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things according to the counsel of his will.

¹²That we may be unto the praise of his glory: we who before hoped in Christ:

¹³In whom you also, after you had heard the word of truth (the gospel of your salvation), in whom also believing, you were signed with the holy Spirit of promise.

¹⁴Who is the pledge of our inheritance, unto the redemption of acquisition, unto the praise of his glory.

¹⁵Wherefore, I also, hearing of your faith that is in the Lord Jesus and of your love towards all the saints,

¹⁶Cease not to give thanks for you, making commemoration of you in my prayers,

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

¹⁸The eyes of your heart enlightened that you may know what the hope is of his calling and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints.

¹⁹And what is the exceeding greatness of his power towards us, who believe according to the operation of the might of his power,

²⁰Which he wrought in Christ, raising him up from the dead and setting him on his right hand in the heavenly places.

²¹Above all principality and power and virtue and dominion and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come.

²²And he hath subjected all things under his feet and hath made him head over all the church,

²³Which is his body and the fulness of him who is filled all in all.

Chapter 2

And you, when you were dead in your offences and sins,

²Wherein in time past you walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of this air, of the spirit that now worketh on the children of unbelief:

³In which also we all conversed in time past, in the desires of our flesh, fulfilling the will of the flesh and of our thoughts, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest:

⁴But God (who is rich in mercy) for his exceeding charity wherewith he loved us

⁵Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together in Christ (by whose grace you are saved)

⁶And hath raised us up together and hath made us sit together in the heavenly places, through Christ Jesus.

⁷That he might shew in the ages to come the abundant riches of his grace, in his bounty towards us in Christ Jesus.

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

⁹Not of works, that no man may glory.

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

¹¹For which cause be mindful that you, being heretofore Ephesians 2:11 (D-R): gentiles in the flesh, who are called uncircumcision by that which is called circumcision in the flesh, made by hands:

¹²That you were at that time without Christ, being aliens from the conversation of Israel and strangers to the testament, having no hope of the promise and without God in this world.

¹³But now in Christ Jesus, you, who some time were afar off, are made nigh by the blood of Christ.

¹⁴For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and breaking down the middle wall of partition, the enmities in his flesh:

¹⁵Making void the law of commandments contained in decrees: that he might make the two in himself into one new man, making peace

¹⁶And might reconcile both to God in one body by the cross, killing the enmities in himself.

¹⁷And coming, he preached peace to you that were afar off: and peace to them that were nigh.

¹⁸For by him we have access both in one Spirit to the Father.

¹⁹Now therefore you are no more strangers and foreigners: but you are fellow citizens with the saints and the domestics of God,

²⁰Built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone:

²¹In whom all the building, being framed together, groweth up into an holy temple in the Lord.

²²In whom you also are built together into an habitation of God in the Spirit.