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Chosen Before the Foundation of the World

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, through the will of God, to the holy ones, to the ones being in Ephesus and believers in Christ Jesus.

²Favor to you and peace from God our father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

³Blessed be the God and father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the one having blessed us with every [²blessing ¹spiritual] in the heavenlies in Christ;

⁴as he chose us in him before the founding of the world, for us to be holy and unblemished before him in love.

⁵Having predefined us for adoption through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good-pleasure of his will,

⁶in high praise of the glory of his favor, in which he showed favor on us by the one being loved;

⁷by whom we have the release by ransom through his blood, the release of transgressions, according to the riches of his favor,

⁸which he abounded in us in all wisdom and intelligence,

⁹having made known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good-pleasure, which he purposed in him,

¹⁰for administration of the fullness of the times, recapitulating all things in the Christ, the things in the heavens, and the things on the earth, in himself.

¹¹In whom also we were chosen by lot, being predefined according to the intention of the one [²all things ¹operating] according to the counsel of his will,

¹²for us to be in high praise of his glory, of the ones hoping earlier in the Christ.

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Sealed by The Spirit of the Promise

In whom also you, having heard the word of the truth the good news of your deliverance -- in whom also having trusted, you were sealed by the spirit of the promise in the holy;

¹⁴who is the deposit of our inheritance, in a release by ransom of the procurement in high praise of his glory.

¹⁵Because of this, I also having heard the [²among you ¹belief] in the Lord Jesus, and the love, the one towards all the holy ones,

¹⁶cease not giving thanks for you, [²mention ³of you ¹making] in my prayers,

¹⁷that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the father of glory, should give [³to you ¹spirit ²of wisdom] and revelation in full knowledge of him,

¹⁸giving light of the eyes of your thought, for you to know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance is in the holy ones,

¹⁹and what the exceeding greatness of his power in us the ones believing, according to the energy of the might of his strength,

²⁰which he operated in the Christ, having raised him from the dead, and seated him at his right hand in the heavenlies,

²¹above every sovereignty and authority, and power and lordship, and every name named, not only in this eon, but also in the one about to be.

²²And all things he submitted under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things to the assembly,

²³which is his body, the fullness of the [²all things ³in ⁴all ¹one fulfilling].