Ephesians 1:3–14

Praise to God for Spiritual Blessings

³Blessed is^b the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, ⁴just as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him in love,^{c 5}having predestined us to adoption through Jesus Christ to himself according to the good pleasure of his will, ⁶to the praise of the glory of his grace that he bestowed on us in the beloved, ⁷in whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace, ⁸that he caused to abound to us in all wisdom and insight, ⁹making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure that he purposed in him, ¹⁰for the administration of the fullness of times, to bring together all things in Christ, the things in the heavens and the things on the earth, in him ¹¹in whom also we were chosen, having been predestined according to the purpose of the One who works all things according to the counsel of his will, ¹²that we who hoped beforehand in Christ should be for the praise of his glory, ¹³in whom also you, when you heard^* the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, in whom also when you believed you were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, ¹⁴who is the down payment of our inheritance, until the redemption of the possession, to the praise of his glory.