Ephesians 1:1-10

1Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by God’s will: To the faithful saints in Christ Jesus at Ephesus.

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

3Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavens in Christ.

4For he chose us in him, before the foundation of the world, to be holy and blameless in love before him.

5He predestined us to be adopted as sons through Jesus Christ for himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,

6to the praise of his glorious grace that he lavished on 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 richly poured out on us with all wisdom and understanding.

9He made known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure that he purposed in Christ

10as a plan for the right time  — to bring everything together in Christ, both things in heaven and things on earth in him.