Ephesians 1–2

¹Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, to the saints who are in Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus: ²Grace to you, and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ!

³Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who did bless us in every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, ⁴according as He did choose us in him before the foundation of the world, for our being holy and unblemished before Him, in love, ⁵having foreordained us to the adoption of sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will, ⁶to the praise of the glory of His grace, in which He did make us accepted in the beloved, ⁷in whom we have the redemption through his blood, the remission of the trespasses, according to the riches of His grace, ⁸in which He did abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence, ⁹having made known to us the secret of His will, according to His good pleasure, that He purposed in Himself, ¹⁰in regard to the dispensation of the fulness of the times, to bring into one the whole in the Christ, both the things in the heavens, and the things upon the earth—in him; ¹¹in whom also we did obtain an inheritance, being foreordained according to the purpose of Him who the all things is working according to the counsel of His will, ¹²for our being to the praise of His glory, even those who did first hope in the Christ, ¹³in whom ye also, having heard the word of the truth—the good news of your salvation—in whom also having believed, ye were sealed with the Holy Spirit of the promise, ¹⁴which is an earnest of our inheritance, to the redemption of the acquired possession, to the praise of His glory.

¹⁵Because of this I also, having heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and the love to all the saints, ¹⁶do not cease giving thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers, ¹⁷that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of the glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the recognition of him, ¹⁸the eyes of your understanding being enlightened, for your knowing what is the hope of His calling, and what the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, ¹⁹and what the exceeding greatness of His power to us who are believing, according to the working of the power of His might, ²⁰which He wrought in the Christ, having raised him out of the dead, and did set him at His right hand in the heavenly places, ²¹far above all principality, and authority, and might, and lordship, and every name named, not only in this age, but also in the coming one; ²²and all things He did put under his feet, and did give him—head over all things to the assembly, ²³which is his body, the fulness of Him who is filling the all in all,

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¹Also you—being dead in the trespasses and the sins, ²in which once ye did walk according to the age of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience, ³among whom also we all did walk once in the desires of our flesh, doing the wishes of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were by nature children of wrath—as also the others.

⁴And God, being rich in kindness, because of His great love with which He loved us, ⁵even being dead in the trespasses, did make us to live together with the Christ, (by grace ye are having been saved,) ⁶and did raise us up together, and did seat us together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, ⁷that He might show, in the ages that are coming, the exceeding riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus, ⁸for by grace ye are having been saved, through faith, and this not of you—of God the gift, ⁹not of works, that no one may boast; ¹⁰for of Him we are workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God did before prepare, that in them we may walk.

¹¹Wherefore, remember, that ye were once the nations in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that called Circumcision in the flesh made by hands, ¹²that ye were at that time apart from Christ, having been alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, having no hope, and without God, in the world; ¹³and now, in Christ Jesus, ye being once afar off became nigh in the blood of the Christ.

¹⁴For he is our peace, who did make both one, and the middle wall of the enclosure did break down, ¹⁵the enmity in his flesh, the law of the commands in ordinances having done away, that the two he might create in himself into one new man, making peace, ¹⁶and might reconcile both in one body to God through the cross, having slain the enmity in it, ¹⁷and having come, he did proclaim good news—peace to you—the far-off and the nigh, ¹⁸because through him we have the access—we both—in one Spirit unto the Father. ¹⁹Then, therefore, ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow-citizens of the saints, and of the household of God, ²⁰being built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being chief corner -stone, ²¹in whom all the building fitly framed together doth increase to an holy sanctuary in the Lord, ²²in whom also ye are builded together, for a habitation of God in the Spirit.

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