Ephesians 1:3-14

Holman Christian Standard Bible

God’s Rich Blessings

³ Praise the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavens.^{(A) 4} For He chose us in Him, before the foundation of the world, to be holy and blameless in His sight.^[a](B) In love^{[b] 5} He predestined us to be adopted through Jesus Christ for Himself, according to His favor and will, ⁶ to the praise of His glorious grace^(C) that He favored us with in the Beloved.^(D)

⁷ We have redemption in Him^(E) through His blood, the forgiveness^(F) of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace ⁸ that He lavished on us with all wisdom and understanding. ⁹ He made known to us the mystery of His will,^(G) according to His good pleasure that He planned in Him^{(H) 10} for the administration^[c] of the days of fulfillment^[d]—to bring everything together in the Messiah,^(I) both things in heaven and things on earth^(J) in Him.^(K)

¹¹ We have also received an inheritance^[e] in Him, predestined^(L) according to the purpose of the One who works out everything in agreement with the decision of His will, ¹² so that we who had already put our hope^(M) in the Messiah might bring praise to His glory.^(N)

¹³ When you heard the message of truth,^(O) the gospel of your salvation, and when you believed in Him, you were also sealed with the promised Holy Spirit.^{(P) 14} He is the down payment^(Q) of our inheritance, for the redemption of the possession,^[f] to the praise of His glory.