Jubilee2000 - Ephesians - 1

1:1  Paul, apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the saints who are at Ephesus and to the faithful in Christ Jesus:

1:2  Grace [be] to you and peace from God our Father and [from] the Lord Jesus Christ.

1:3  Blessed [be] the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly [things] in Christ;

1:4  according as he has chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blemish before him in charity;

1:5  having marked out beforehand [the way] for us to be adopted as sons by Jesus Christ in himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,

1:6  to the praise of the glory of his grace, in which he has made us accepted in the beloved;

1:7  in whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins according to the riches of his grace,

1:8  which has over abounded in us in all wisdom and prudence;

1:9  having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he has purposed in himself,

1:10  that in the dispensation of the fulfillment of the times he might restore all things by the Christ, both those which are in heaven and those which are on earth,

1:11  in him in whom likewise we have obtained an inheritance, having had [the way] marked out beforehand according to the purpose of him who works all things after the counsel of his own will,

1:12  so that we should be to the praise of his glory, those of us who first trusted in the Christ.

1:13  In whom ye also [trusted], hearing the word of truth, the gospel of your saving health; in whom also after ye believed, ye were sealed with that Holy Spirit of the promise,

1:14  which is the earnest of our inheritance unto the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.

1:15  Therefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and charity unto all the saints,

1:16  cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers;

1:17  that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him;

1:18  illuminating the eyes of your understanding, that ye may know what is the hope of his calling and what [are] the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints

1:19  and what [is] the exceeding greatness of his power in us who believe, by the operation of the power of his strength,

1:20  which operated in the Christ, raising him from the dead and setting [him] at his own right hand in the heavenly [places],

1:21  far above all principality and power and might and dominion and every name that is named, not only in this age, but also in that which is to come,

1:22  And has put all [things] under his feet and gave him [to be] the head over all [things] to the church,

1:23  which is his body, and he is the fullness of her: who fills all things in everyone.: