Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who did bless us in every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,

according as He did choose us in him before the foundation of the world, for our being holy and unblemished before Him, in love,

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

to the praise of the glory of His grace, in which He did make us accepted in the beloved,

in which He did abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence,

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

[He did this] to fulfill His plan at the proper time, by bringing together everything [in the universe] under Christ's headship --- things both in heaven and on earth.

in whom also we did obtain an inheritance, being foreordained according to the purpose of Him who the all things is working according to the counsel of His will,

for our being to the praise of His glory, even those who did first hope in the Christ,

Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places,

and all things He did put under his feet, and did give him -- head over all things to the assembly,

And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;

in which once ye did walk according to the age of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience,

among whom also we all did walk once in the desires of our flesh, doing the wishes of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were by nature children of wrath -- as also the others,

but God who is rich in mercy, on account of his great love with which he loved us,??5 even when we were dead in sins he made us alive with Christ,??y grace are you saved,

Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)

and did raise us up together, and did seat us together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,

[and He did this] so that in the ages to come He might [clearly] show the immeasurable and unsurpassed riches of His grace in [His] kindness toward us in Christ Jesus [by providing for our redemption].

for of Him we are workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God did before prepare, that in them we may walk.

for he is our peace, who did make both one, and the middle wall of the enclosure did break down,

He made of no effect the law consisting of commands and expressed in regulations, so that He might create in Himself one new man from the two, resulting in peace.

He did this so that He might reconcile both to God in one body through the cross and put the hostility to death by it.

and having come, he did proclaim good news -- peace to you -- the far-off and the nigh,

if, indeed, ye did hear of the dispensation of the grace of God that was given to me in regard to you,

and to cause all to see what is the fellowship of the secret that hath been hid from the ages in God, who the all things did create by Jesus Christ,

He did this so that now, through the church, the wisdom of God in all its variety might be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly realm

who, having ceased to feel, themselves did give up to the lasciviousness, for the working of all uncleanness in greediness;

But ye did not so learn Christ;

if so be ye did hear him, and in him were taught, as truth is in Jesus;

and become one to another kind, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, according as also God in Christ did forgive you.

and walk in love, as also the Christ did love us, and did give himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odour of a sweet smell,

Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.

The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it,

He did this to present the church to Himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or anything like that, but holy and blameless.

for no one ever his own flesh did hate, but doth nourish and cherish it, as also the Lord -- the assembly,

knowing that whatever good deed a person does, he will be rewarded for it from the Lord, whether he is a slave or a free person.

whom I did send unto you for this very thing, that ye might know the things concerning us, and that he might comfort your hearts.