Paul’s Greeting to the Ephesians

¹ Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God,

To the saints in Ephesus, the faithful in Christ Jesus:

² Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Spiritual Blessings

³ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms. ⁴ For^* He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless in His presence. In love^{* 5} He predestined^* us for adoption as His sons through Jesus Christ, according to the good pleasure^* of His will, ⁶ to the praise of His glorious grace, which He has freely given us in the Beloved One.

⁷ In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace ⁸ that He lavished on us with all wisdom and understanding. ⁹ And He has made known to us the mystery of His will according to His good pleasure, which He purposed in Christ ¹⁰ as a plan^* for the fullness of time, to bring^* all things in heaven and on earth together in Christ^*.

¹¹ In 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,^{* 12} in order that we, who were the first to hope in Christ, would be for the praise of His glory.

¹³ And in Him, having heard and believed the word of truth — the gospel of your salvation — you were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, ¹⁴ who is the pledge of our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God’s possession,^* to the praise of His glory.

Spiritual Wisdom

¹⁵ For this reason, ever since I heard about your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints, ¹⁶ I have not stopped giving thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers, ¹⁷ that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you a spirit^* of wisdom and revelation in your knowledge of Him.

¹⁸ I 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 saints, ¹⁹ and the surpassing^* greatness of His power to us who believe. These are in accordance with the working of His mighty strength, ²⁰ which He exerted in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly realms,^{* 21} far 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.

²² And God put everything under His feet and made Him head^* over everything for the church, ²³ which is His body, the fullness^* of Him who fills all in all.