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Greeting

1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, To the saints who are in Ephesus, and faithful in Christ Jesus:
2 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Redemption in Christ

3 aBlessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,  
4 just as aHe chose us in Him bbefore the foundation of the world, that we should cbe holy and without blame before Him in love,  
5 ahaving predestined us to badoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, caccording to the good pleasure of His will,  
6 to the praise of the glory of His grace, aby which He made us accepted in bthe Beloved.  
7 aIn Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to bthe riches of His grace  
8 which He made to abound toward us in all wisdom and1 prudence,  
9 ahaving made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure bwhich He purposed in Himself,  
10 that in the dispensation of athe fullness of the times bHe might gather together in one call things in Christ, both which are in heaven and which are on earth—in Him.  
11 aIn Him also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestined according to bthe purpose of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His will,  
12 athat we bwho first trusted in Christ should be to the praise of His glory.  
13 In Him you also trusted, after you heard athe word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, byou were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise,  
14 awho1 is the guarantee of our inheritance buntil the redemption of cthe purchased possession, dto the praise of His glory.  
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Ephesians 1:1

Ephesians 1:1 The Foreordination of the Church SUMMARY OF EPHESIANS 1: The Salutation. Our Election and Adoption by Grace. This the Source of Salvation. The Mystery Made Known. The Inheritance. Prayer That Wisdom and Knowledge Be Given to the Saints. Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ. It was always the custom anciently to place the name of the writer at the beginning rather than at the end as with us. By the will of God. Emphasis is placed in most of Paul's epistles upon the fact that he was not an apostle by the appointment of man, but by the will of God. To the saints which are at Ephesus. All Christians were called saints in the early church. See the salutations of other Epistles. And to the faithful in Christ Jesus. The same as the saints. There is no article in the Greek before "faithful". A literal translation is "To the saints dwelling in Ephesus and faithful in Christ Jesus".




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