[Ephesians 1]

 

             ^1:1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, to the holy-ones who are in Ephesus and the faithful in Christ Jesus: ^1:2 grace to you^° and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

 

             ^1:3 Gracious^* is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who blessed us in every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, ^1:4 just-as he chose us in him before the conception of the world, for us to be holy and unblemished in his sight in love^*. ^1:5 God beforehand determined us toward the sonship through Jesus Christ to himself, according-to the delight of his will, ^1:6 to the praise of the glory of his favor {‘favor’ and ‘grace’ are from the same Greek word in the MLV}, in which he favored us in the beloved, ^1:7 in whom we have the redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of the trespasses of us according-to the riches of his grace. ^1:8 It is this grace which abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence. ^1:9 And God made known to us the mystery of his will, according-to his delight which he purposed in him, ^1:10 to a stewardship of the fullness of the times, to sum up all things in the Christ, the things upon the heavens and the things upon the earth. ^1:11 It was in him, in whom also we were made an inheritance, having been determined beforehand according-to the purpose of the one who is working all things according-to the plan of his will. ^1:12 This was so ^*that^* we should be to the praise of his glory, even us, the ones who have hoped before in the Christ, ^1:13 in whom you^° also heard the word of the truth, the good-news of your^° salvation, in whom, after also believed, you^° were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, ^1:14 who is a down-payment of our inheritance, to the redemption of the ownership of God to the praise of his glory.

 

             ^1:15 Because of this, I, also heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which is in you^° and the love^* which you^° have toward all the holy-ones, ^1:16 am not ceasing giving-thanks on your^° behalf, making^* a remembrance of you^° in my prayers, ^1:17 in-order-that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you^° a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the full knowledge of him. ^1:18 The eyes of your^° heart have been enlightened, ^*that^* you^° may know what is the hope of his calling and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance among the holy-ones, ^1:19 and what is the surpassing greatness of his power toward us who believe, according-to the working of the dominion of his strength, ^1:20 which he worked in the Christ, when he raised him from the dead and seated him by his right hand in the heavenly places, ^1:21 up above all rule and authority and power and lordship and every name that is being named, not only in this age, but also in the future age. ^1:22 And he subjected all things under his feet and gave him to be head above all things to the congregation^* of believers, ^1:23 which is his body, the fullness of the one filling all in all.