according as he had chosen us in him through love, before the foundation of the world was laid, that we should be saints, and without blame before him, through love.

having made known to us the secret of his will, according to his good pleasure, which He had before purposed in Himself:

so to order it in the fulness of the ages that all things in heaven and earth alike should be gathered up in Christ ??11 in the Christ in whom we have had our heritage allotted us (as was decreed in the design of him who carries out everything according to the counsel of his will),

in union with whom we were made God's portion, since we had been foreordained in accordance with the purpose of Him who in everything carries out the plan of His will,

that we who had first put our hope in Christ might praise His glory.

In whom ye also [trusted] after ye had heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, ye have been sealed with the holy Spirit of promise,

For this cause I, having had news of the faith in the Lord Jesus which is among you, and which you make clear to all the saints,

who were dead in trespasses and sins, Wherein ye formerly walked, according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the sons of disobedience: Among whom also we all had our conversation in time past,

among which we also had our conversation in time past, in the lusts of our flesh, and fulfilled the will of the flesh, and of the mind: and were naturally the children of wrath, even as well as others.

But God, being full of mercy, through the great love which he had for us,

For it is by grace you have been saved, as you had faith; it is not your doing but God's gift,

For he has made us, creating us through our union with Christ Jesus for the life of goodness which God had predestined us to live.

remember, I say, that ye were at that time without Christ, and were reputed aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and were strangers from the testaments of promise, and had no hope, and were without God in this world.

to reconcile them both to God with His cross after He had killed the hostility through it.

Which, in other generations, had not been made known unto the sons of men, as it hath, now, been revealed by his holy apostles and prophets, in Spirit; -

And to bring to light - what is the administration of the sacred secret which had been hidden away from the ages in God, who did all things create:

Such was the eternal purpose which He had formed in Christ Jesus our Lord,

There is but one body and but one Spirit, as also when you were called you had one and the same hope held out to you.

What does "He went up" mean, except that He had first gone down into the lower regions of the earth?

Who no longer having had feeling delivered themselves to licentiousness, to the work of all uncleanness in overreaching.

And be kind to one another, full of pity, having forgiveness for one another, even as God in Christ had forgiveness for you.

And be living in love, even as Christ had love for you, and gave himself up for us, an offering to God for a perfume of a sweet smell.

Husbands, have love for your wives, even as Christ had love for the church, and gave himself for it;

For no man ever had hate for his flesh; but he gives it food and takes care of it, even as Christ does for the church;

not with mere external service, as though you had only men to please, but like slaves of Christ, carrying out the will of God.