1Paul, apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the saints who are at Ephesus, that is, the faithful in Christ Jesus:
2Grace to you and peace from God our Father and Sovereign Jesus Christ.
3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms in Christ;
4just as HeF chose us in HimS before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before HimF, in love,
5having predestined us into an adoption as sons through Jesus Christ, into HimS, according to the good pleasure of HisF will,
6to the praise of the glory of His grace, with which He graced us in the Beloved;
7in whom we have the redemption through HisS blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of HisF grace,
8that He made to abound toward us in all wisdom and intelligent design,
9having made known to us the ‘secret’ of His will, according to His good pleasure which He purposed in HimS,
10with a view to administering the fullness of the times, so as to bring all things together under one head in Christ—those on the heavens and those on the earth—in HimS,
11in whom we were also assigned an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of HimF who works all things according to the decision of His will,
12so that we should be to the praise of His glory, we who first trusted in the Christ;
13about whom, to be sure, we had heard the true Word—the Gospel of your salvation; by whom, since you also believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise,
14who is the down payment on our inheritance until the release of the possession, to the praise of His glory.
15Because of this, having heard about your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love toward all the saints,
16I really do not stop giving thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers:
17that the God of our Lord, Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the real knowledge of Himself,
18the eyes of your heart having been enlightened, that you may know 1) what is the hope of HisF calling, and 2) what the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints,
19and 3) what the exceeding greatness of His power into us who are believing, according to the demonstration of the extent of His might
20which He exercised in the Christ when He raised HimS from among the dead and seated Him at HisF right, in the heavenly realms,
21far above every ruler and authority and power and dominion—even every name that can be named, not only in this age but also in the next.
22In short, HeF placed everything under HisS feet, and appointed Him to be Head over everything in the Church,
23which is His body, the complement of Him who fills everything in every way.
