Ephesians 1:3-14

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

4For he chose us in Christ before the foundation of the world that we may be holy and unblemished in his sight in love.

5He did this by predestining us to adoption as his sons through Jesus Christ, according to the pleasure of his will –

6to the praise of the glory of his grace that he has freely bestowed on us in his dearly loved Son.

7In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace

8that he lavished on us in all wisdom and insight.

9He did this when he revealed to us the secret of his will, according to his good pleasure that he set forth in Christ,

10toward the administration of the fullness of the times, to head up all things in Christ – the things in heaven and the things on earth.

11In Christ we too have been claimed as God’s own possession, since we were predestined according to the one purpose of him who accomplishes all things according to the counsel of his will

12so that we, who were the first to set our hope on Christ, would be to the praise of his glory.

13And when you heard the word of truth (the gospel of your salvation) – when you believed in Christ – you were marked with the seal of the promised Holy Spirit,

14who is the down payment of our inheritance, until the redemption of God’s own possession, to the praise of his glory.