Ephesians 1

1. ¹Paul, apostle of Jesus Christ by God's will, to the saints and faithful in Christ Jesus who are at Ephesus.
2. ²Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and [supplied: the] Lord Jesus Christ.
3. ³Blessed [supplied: be] the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenlies in Christ;
4. ⁴according as he has chosen us in him before [supplied: the] world's foundation, that we should be holy and blameless before him in love;
5. ⁵having marked us out beforehand for adoption through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,
6. ⁶to [supplied: the] praise of [supplied: the] glory of his grace, wherein he has taken us into favour in the Beloved:
7. ⁷in whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of offences, according to the riches of his grace;
8. ⁸which he has caused to abound towards us in all wisdom and intelligence,
9. ⁹having made known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in himself
10. ¹⁰for [supplied: the] administration of the fulness of times; to head up all things in the Christ, the things in the heavens and the things upon the earth; in him,
11. ¹¹in whom we have also obtained an inheritance, being marked out beforehand according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his own will,
12. ¹²that we should be to [supplied: the] praise of his glory who have pre-trusted in the Christ:
13. ¹³in whom *ye* also [supplied: have trusted], having heard the word of the truth, the glad tidings of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, ye have been sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise,
14. ¹⁴who is [supplied: the] earnest of our inheritance to the redemption of the acquired possession to [supplied: the] praise of his glory.
15. ¹⁵Wherefore *I* also, having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which [supplied: is] in you, and the love which [supplied: ye have] towards all the saints,
16. ¹⁶do not cease giving thanks for you, making mention [supplied: of you] at my prayers,
17. ¹⁷that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, would give you [supplied: the] spirit of wisdom and revelation in the full knowledge of him,
18. ¹⁸being enlightened in the eyes of your heart, so that ye should know what is the hope of his calling, [supplied: and] what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,
19. ¹⁹and what the surpassing greatness of his power towards us who believe, according to the working of the might of his strength,
20. ²⁰[supplied: in] which he wrought in the Christ [supplied: in] raising him from among [supplied: the] dead, and he set him down at his right hand in the heavenlies,
21. ²¹above every principality, and authority, and power, and dominion, and every name named, not only in this age, but also in that to come;
22. ²²and has put all things under his feet, and gave him [supplied: to be] head over all things to the assembly,
23. ²³which is his body, the fulness of him who fills all in all:

Words in italics were supplied by the translators.

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