Ephesians 1:2-11

2Grace and shalom to you, from God our Father and the Lord Yeshua the Messiah!

3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Messiah.

4He chose us in the Messiah before the foundation of the world, to be holy and blameless before Him in love.

5He predestined us for adoption as sons through Messiah Yeshua, in keeping with the good pleasure of His will—

6to the glorious praise of His grace, with which He favored us through the One He loves!

7In Him we have redemption through His blood—the removal of trespasses—in keeping with the richness of His grace

8that He lavished on us. In all wisdom and insight,

9He made known to us the mystery of His will, in keeping with His good pleasure that He planned in Messiah.

10The plan of the fullness of times is to bring all things together in the Messiah—both things in heaven and things on earth, all in Him.

11In Him we also were chosen, predestined according to His plan. He keeps working out all things according to the purpose of His will—