Paul, an apostle (special messenger, personally chosen representative) of Christ Jesus (the Messiah, the Anointed), by the will of God [that is, by His purpose and choice],

To the saints (God’s people) who are at Ephesus and are faithful and loyal and steadfast in Christ Jesus:

May grace and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus, the Messiah, be yours!

Blessed and worthy of praise be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms in Christ,

just as he chose us in the Messiah before the creation of the universe to be holy and blameless in his presence. In love

he predestined us for adoption to himself through Jesus the Messiah, according to the pleasure of his will,

when he made known to us the secret of his will. This was according to his plan that he set forth in the Messiah

for the administration of the days of fulfillment—to bring everything together in the Messiah, both things in heaven and things on earth in Him.

In the Messiah we were also chosen when we were predestined according to the purpose of the one who does everything that he wills to do,

so that we who had already put our hope in the Messiah might bring praise to His glory.

You, too, have heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation. When you believed in the Messiah, you were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,

I pray that the God of our Lord Jesus, the Messiah, the most glorious Father, would give you a wise spirit, along with revelation that comes through knowing the Messiah fully.

He demonstrated this power in the Messiah by raising Him from the dead and seating Him at His right hand in the heavens—

God has put everything under the Messiah's feet and has made him the head of everything for the good of the church,

made us alive with the Messiah even though we were dead in trespasses. You are saved by grace!

And He raised us up together with Him [when we believed], and seated us with Him in the heavenly places, [because we are] in Christ Jesus,

so that in the coming ages he might display the limitless riches of his grace that comes to us through his kindness in the Messiah Jesus.

For we are God's masterpiece, created in the Messiah Jesus to perform good actions that God prepared long ago to be our way of life.

At that time you were without the Messiah, excluded from the citizenship of Israel, and foreigners to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world.

But now in Christ Jesus, you who were far away have been brought near by the blood of the Messiah.

having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, the Messiah Jesus himself being the cornerstone.

For this reason I, Paul, am the prisoner of the Messiah Jesus for the sake of you gentiles.

By reading this you are able to understand my insight about the mystery of the Messiah.

The gentiles are heirs-in-common, members-in-common of the body, and common participants in what was promised by the Messiah Jesus through the gospel.

This grace was given to me—the least of all the saints—to proclaim to the Gentiles the incalculable riches of the Messiah,

This is according to His eternal purpose accomplished in the Messiah, Jesus our Lord.

This is the reason I bow my knees before the Father of our Lord Jesus, the Messiah,

and that the Messiah may dwell in your hearts through faith. I pray that you, being rooted and firmly established in love,

and to know the Messiah’s love that surpasses knowledge, so you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

to him be glory in the church and in the Messiah Jesus to all generations, forever and ever! Amen.

Now grace was given to each one of us according to the measure of the Messiah’s gift.

to equip the saints, to do the work of ministry, and to build up the body of the Messiah

until all of us are united in the faith and in the full knowledge of God's Son, and until we attain mature adulthood and the full standard of development in the Messiah.

But speaking the truth in love [in all things—both our speech and our lives expressing His truth], let us grow up in all things into Him [following His example] who is the Head—Christ.

But that is not how you learned about the Messiah,

And be kind to one another, compassionate, forgiving one another just as God has forgiven you in the Messiah.

And walk in love, as the Messiah also loved us and gave Himself for us, a sacrificial and fragrant offering to God.

For know and recognize this: Every sexually immoral or impure or greedy person, who is an idolater, does not have an inheritance in the kingdom of the Messiah and of God.

for what makes everything clear is light. Therefore it is said:

Get up, sleeper, and rise up from the dead,
and the Messiah will shine on you.

you will consistently give thanks to God the Father for everything in the name of our Lord Jesus, the Messiah;

being subject to one another out of reverence for Christ.

For the husband is the head of his wife as the Messiah is the head of the church. It is he who is the Savior of the body.

Indeed, just as the church is submissive to the Messiah, so wives must be submissive to their husbands in everything.

Husbands, love your wives as the Messiah loved the church and gave himself for it,

For no one has ever hated his own body, but he nourishes and tenderly cares for it, as the Messiah does the church.

This is a great secret, but I am talking about the Messiah and the church.

Slaves, obey your earthly masters with fear, trembling, and sincerity, as when you obey the Messiah.

Do not do this only while you're being watched in order to please them, but be like slaves of the Messiah, who are determined to obey God's will.

Peace be to the brothers and sisters, and love joined with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

May grace be with all who sincerely love the Lord Jesus, the Messiah!