Ephesians 1:2-11

2Good will  and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ are yours!

3Praise the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! Through Christ, God has blessed us with every spiritual blessing that heaven has to offer.

4Before the creation of the world, he chose us through Christ to be holy and perfect in his presence.

5Because of his love he had already decided to adopt us through Jesus Christ. He freely chose to do this

6so that the kindness  he had given us in his dear Son would be praised and given glory.

7Through the blood of his Son, we are set free from our sins. God forgives our failures because of his overflowing kindness.

8He poured out his kindness by giving us every kind of wisdom and insight

9when he revealed the mystery of his plan to us. He had decided to do this through Christ.

10He planned to bring all of history to its goal in Christ. Then Christ would be the head of everything in heaven and on earth.

11God also decided ahead of time to choose us through Christ according to his plan, which makes everything work the way he intends.