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| Ephesians 1: (ASV) |
| 1) Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, to the saints that are at Ephesus, and the faithful in Christ Jesus: |
| 2) Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. |
| 3) 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: |
| 4) 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: |
| 5) having foreordained us unto adoption as sons through Jesus Christ unto himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, |
| 6) to the praise of the glory of his grace, which he freely bestowed on us in the Beloved: |
| 7) in whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace, |
| 8) which he made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence, |
| 9) making known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him |
| 10) 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, |
| 11) 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; |
| 12) to the end that we should be unto the praise of his glory, we who had before hoped in Christ: |
| 13) 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, |
| 14) which is an earnest of our inheritance, unto the redemption of God's own possession, unto the praise of his glory. |
| 15) For this cause I also, having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which is among you, and the love which ye show toward all the saints, |
| 16) cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers; |
| 17) 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; |
| 18) 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, |
| 19) and what the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to that working of the strength of his might |
| 20) 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, |
| 21) 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: |
| 22) and he put all things in subjection under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things to the church, |
| 23) which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all. |