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God,</p><p class="reg"> To the saints being in Ephesus,<span class="fn"><a href="#fna" title="Some manuscripts do not include ‘in Ephesus’">a</a></span> and faithful in Christ Jesus: </p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/1-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Grace to you and peace from God our Father and <i>the</i> Lord Jesus Christ. </p><p class="hdg">Spiritual Blessings<br /><span class="cross">(Romans 8:28-34)</span></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/1-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Blessed <i>be</i> the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the <i>One</i> having blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms, <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/1-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>just as He chose us in Him before <i>the</i> foundation of <i>the</i> world for us to be holy and blameless before Him, in love <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/1-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>having predestined us for divine adoption as sons to Himself through Jesus Christ, according to the good pleasure of His will, <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/1-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>to <i>the</i> praise of <i>the</i> glory of His grace, which He has freely given us in the Beloved <i>One</i>, <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/1-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of trespasses, according to the riches of His grace <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/1-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>which He lavished upon us in all wisdom and understanding, <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/1-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>having made known to us the mystery of His will according to His pleasure, which He purposed in Him <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/1-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>for <i>the</i> administration of the fullness of the times, to bring together all things in Christ—the things in the heavens and the things upon the earth— <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/1-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>in Him, in whom also we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to <i>the</i> purpose of the <i>One</i> working all things according to the counsel of His will <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/1-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>for us, the <i>ones</i> having first trusted in Christ, to be to <i>the</i> praise of His glory, <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/1-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>in whom you also, having heard the word of truth, the gospel your of salvation, in whom also having believed you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/1-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>who is <i>the</i> guarantee of our inheritance to <i>the</i> redemption of the acquired possession, to <i>the</i> praise of His glory. </p><p class="hdg">Spiritual Wisdom</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/1-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Because of this, I also, having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus among you, and the love toward all the saints, <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/1-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>do not cease giving thanks for you, making mention in my prayers, <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/1-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in <i>the</i> knowledge of Him, <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/1-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>the eyes your of heart being enlightened, in order for you to know what is the hope of His calling, what <i>are</i> the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/1-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>and what <i>is</i> the surpassing greatness of His power toward us believing according to the working of the power of His might, <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/1-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>which He worked in Christ, having raised Him out from <i>the</i> dead, and having set <i>Him</i> at His right hand in the heavenly realms, <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/1-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>above every principality and authority and power and dominion, and every name being named, not only in this age, but also in the <i>one</i> coming. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/1-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And He put all things under His feet and gave Him <i>to be</i> head over all things to the church, <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/1-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>which is His body, the fullness of the <i>One</i> filling all in all.<A name="fn"><br /><br /></p><A name="fna"></a><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">1</span> <span class="footnote">Some manuscripts do not include <i>in Ephesus</i></span><br /><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Berean Bible<br /><a href="//berean.bible">www.Berean.Bible</a><br /><br /><a 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