OrthJBC - Ephesians - 1

1:1  Sha'ul a Shliach of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua by the ratzon Hashem to the kedoshim who are in Ephesus, and who are haNe'emanim in Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua;

1:2  Chen v'Chesed Hashem to you and shalom from Elohim Avinu and Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Adoneinu Yehoshua. THE BERAKHOT OF THE GEULAH B'MOSHIACH

1:3  Baruch hu Adonoi Avi Adoneinu Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua, who has bestowed on us every birkat hanefesh in Shomayim in Moshiach,

1:4  just as he picked us out to be part of Hashem's Bechirim (Chosen Ones) before the hivvased tevel (foundation of the world), that we should be kedoshim and without mum (defect, Vayikra 22:20) before him. In ahavah [Vayikra 11:44; 20:7; Shmuel Bais 22:24; Tehillim 15:2]

1:5  having provided the yi'ud merosh (predestination) for us to be chosen as adopted bnei brit through Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua to himself, according to the chafetz of his ratzon,

1:6  to the tehilat kavod of the Chen v'Chesed Hashem of him by which he freely favored us in the Moshiach HaAhuv.

1:7  In him we have the pedut (redemption, personal Geulah release on payment of ransom) through the [kapparah] dahm of Moshiach, the selichat chatoteinu, according to the osher of the Chen v'Chesed Hashem of him,

1:8  which he lavished upon us. In all chochmah and binah,

1:9  having made hitgalut to us the raz of his ratzon, according to the chafetz of his ratzon, which Hashem purposed in Moshiach

1:10  for a pakuddat Hashem (stewardship of G-d), a plan for the fullness of time, gathering up all things in Moshiach, both the things in Shomayim and the things on ha'Aretz in him.

1:11  In Moshiach we have also obtained a nachalah (alloted inheritance, Tehillim 16:5-6), having been predestined according to the tochnit Hashem (purposeful and willed plan of G-d), who works all things after the counsel of his ratzon,

1:12  to the end that we who were HaRishonim to have tikvah in Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach should be to the tehilat kevod of him.

1:13  In Moshiach you also, having heard the message of HaEmes, the Besuras HaGeulah of Yeshu'at Eloheinu which is yours--having also had emunah, you received your chotam (seal) in Moshiach with the Ruach Hakodesh of havtachah,

1:14  who is bestowed as an eravon (pledge) of our nachalah (alloted inheritance, Tehillim 16:5-6), with a view to the Geulah of Hashem's own possession, to the tehilat kevod of him. THE TEFILLAH OF RAV SHA'UL

1:15  Because of all of this, I, too, having heard of the emunah in Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Adoneinu Yehoshua which is yours, and having heard of your ahavah (agape) for all the kedoshim,

1:16  do not cease giving hodayah (thanksgiving) for you, while speaking of you in my tefillos;

1:17  that Hashem of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Adoneinu Yehoshua, the Avi Hakavod, may give to you a ruach of chochmah and hitgalut in the da'as of Moshiach.[Shemot 28:3; Yeshayah 11:2]

1:18  It is my tefillah that the eynayim of your levavot may be enlightened so that you may have da'as of what is the tikvah of his keri'ah (his summons from Shomayim), what is the osher of the kavod of his nachalah in the kedoshim,

1:19  and what is the surpassing gedulat hagevurah (greatness of his power) to us who have emunah, according to the working of the ko'ach of his might [Yeshayah 40:26]

1:20  which he exerted in Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, when he raised him in Moshiach's Techiyas HaMesim, having seated him at his yad yamin in Shomayim,

1:21  far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in the Olam Hazeh but also in Olam Habah.

1:22  And Hashem subordinated all things under the feet of Moshiach and gave him as Rosh over all things to the Brit Chadasha Kehillah,

1:23  which is HaGuf HaMoshiach, [Bereshis 47:18; Tehillim 16:9-10; Iyov 19:25-27; Yeshayah 53:11] the melo (plentitude) of him, who fills all in all.