according as He chose us in Him before the founding of a world, that we should be holy and without blemish before Him in love;

that we might be to the praise of His glory, we who had before hoped in Christ;

for we are His workmanship, having been created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God before prepared, that we should walk in them.

that by revelation was made known to me the mystery, as I wrote before in brief;