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and the faithful in Christ Jesus: <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/1-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.</p> <a name="3" id="3"></a><p class="hdg">Spiritual Blessings<br /><p class="cross">(<a href="../romans/8.htm#28">Romans 8:28-34</a>)</p></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/1-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ: <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/1-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blemish before him in love: <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/1-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>having foreordained us unto adoption as sons through Jesus Christ unto himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/1-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>to the praise of the glory of his grace, which he freely bestowed on us in the Beloved: <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/1-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>in whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace, <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/1-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>which he made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence, <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/1-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/1-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>unto a dispensation of the fulness of the times, to sum up all things in Christ, the things in the heavens, and the things upon the earth; in him, I say, <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/1-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>in whom also we were made a heritage, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his will; <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/1-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>to the end that we should be unto the praise of his glory, we who had before hoped in Christ: <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/1-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>in whom ye also, having heard the word of the truth, the gospel of your salvation,—in whom, having also believed, ye were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/1-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>which is an earnest of our inheritance, unto the redemption of God's own possession, unto the praise of his glory.</p> <p class="hdg">Prayer for Spiritual Wisdom</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/1-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>For this cause I also, having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which is among you, and which ye shew toward all the saints, <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/1-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you 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 unto you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him; <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/1-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>having the eyes of your heart enlightened, that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, what 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 the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to that working of the strength of his might <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/1-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and made him to sit at his right hand in the heavenly places, <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/1-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>far above all rule, and authority, and power, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come: <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/1-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>and he put all things in subjection under his feet, and gave him to be 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 fulness of him that filleth all in all.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">English Revised Version, 1885<br /><br /><a href="//bereanbible.com">Section Headings Courtesy BereanBible.com<br />© 2013, 2014 Used by Permission</a><span class="p"><br /><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../galatians/6.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Galatians 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