Ephesians 1
Open in the reader1Paul, an emissary of The-Anointed-One He-Who-Is-Saves by the will of God, To the devoted ones in Ephesus, the faithful in The-Anointed-One He-Who-Is-Saves:
2Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord He-Who-Is-Saves The-Anointed-One.
3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord He-Who-Is-Saves The-Anointed-One, who has blessed us in The-Anointed-One with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms.
4For He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world to be devoted and blameless in His presence. In love
5He predestined us for adoption as His sons through He-Who-Is-Saves The-Anointed-One, according to the good pleasure of His will,
6to the praise of His glorious grace, which He has freely given us in the Beloved One.
7In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace
8that He lavished on us with all wisdom and understanding.
9And He has made known to us the mystery of His will according to His good pleasure, which He purposed in The-Anointed-One
10as a plan for the fullness of time, to bring all things in heaven and on earth together in The-Anointed-One.
11In Him we were also chosen as God’s own, having been predestined according to the plan of Him who works out everything by the counsel of His will,
12in order that we, who were the first to hope in The-Anointed-One, would be for the praise of His glory.
13And in Him, having heard and believed the word of truth—the good news of your salvation—you were sealed with the promised Devoted Spirit,
14who is the pledge of our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God’s possession, to the praise of His glory.
15For this reason, ever since I heard about your faith in the Lord He-Who-Is-Saves and your love for all the devoted ones,
16I have not stopped giving thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers,
17that the God of our Lord He-Who-Is-Saves The-Anointed-One, the glorious Father, may give you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in your knowledge of Him.
18I ask that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you may know the hope of His calling, the riches of His glorious inheritance in the devoted ones,
19and the surpassing greatness of His power to us who believe. These are in accordance with the working of His mighty strength,
20which He exerted in The-Anointed-One when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly realms,
21far above all rule and authority, power and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in the present age but also in the one to come.
22And God put everything under His feet and made Him head over everything for the assembly,
23which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all.