Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, to the saints who are in Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus:

Grace to you, and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ!

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,

having foreordained us to the adoption of sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will,

in regard to the dispensation of the fulness of the times, to bring into one the whole in the Christ, both the things in the heavens, and the things upon the earth -- in him;

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

that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of the glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the recognition of him,

which He wrought in the Christ, having raised him out of the dead, and did set him at His right hand in the heavenly places,

even being dead in the trespasses, did make us to live together with the Christ, (by grace ye are having been saved,)

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

that He might show, in the ages that are coming, the exceeding riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus,

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

that ye were at that time apart from Christ, having been alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, having no hope, and without God, in the world;

and now, in Christ Jesus, ye being once afar off became nigh in the blood of the Christ,

being built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being chief corner -stone,

For this cause, I Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for you the nations,

in regard to which ye are able, reading it, to understand my knowledge in the secret of the Christ,

that the nations be fellow-heirs, and of the same body, and partakers of His promise in the Christ, through the good news,

to me -- the less than the least of all the saints -- was given this grace, among the nations to proclaim good news -- the untraceable riches of the Christ,

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,

according to a purpose of the ages, which He made in Christ Jesus our Lord,

For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,

that the Christ may dwell through the faith in your hearts, in love having been rooted and founded,

to know also the love of the Christ that is exceeding the knowledge, that ye may be filled -- to all the fulness of God;

to Him is the glory in the assembly in Christ Jesus, to all the generations of the age of the ages. Amen.

and to each one of you was given the grace, according to the measure of the gift of Christ,

unto the perfecting of the saints, for a work of ministration, for a building up of the body of the Christ,

till we may all come to the unity of the faith and of the recognition of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to a measure of stature of the fulness of the Christ,

and, being true in love, we may increase to Him in all things, who is the head -- the Christ;

and ye did not so learn the Christ,

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,

for this ye know, that every whoremonger, or unclean, or covetous person, who is an idolater, hath no inheritance in the reign of the Christ and God.

wherefore he saith, 'Arouse thyself, thou who art sleeping, and arise out of the dead, and the Christ shall shine upon thee.'

giving thanks always for all things, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to the God and Father;

because the husband is head of the wife, as also the Christ is head of the assembly, and he is saviour of the body,

but even as the assembly is subject to Christ, so also are the wives to their own husbands in everything.

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

this secret is great, and I speak in regard to Christ and to the assembly;

The servants! obey the masters according to the flesh with fear and trembling, in the simplicity of your heart, as to the Christ;

not with eye-service as men-pleasers, but as servants of the Christ, doing the will of God out of soul,

Peace to the brethren, and love, with faith, from God the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ!

The grace with all those loving our Lord Jesus Christ -- undecayingly! Amen.