From: Paul, an apostle of the Messiah Jesus by God's will. To: His holy and faithful people in Ephesus who are in union with the Messiah Jesus.

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

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus, the Messiah! He has blessed us in the Messiah with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realm,

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

to usher in the fullness of the times and to bring together in the Messiah all things in heaven and on earth.

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 fixed our hope on the Messiah might live for his praise and 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.

which he brought about in the Messiah when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realm.

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

even when we were dead because of our offenses, made us alive together with the Messiah (by grace you have been saved),

raised us up with him, and seated us with him in the heavenly realm in the Messiah 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 citizenship in Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise. You had no hope and were in the world without God.

But now, in union with the Messiah Jesus, you who once 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 will be able to grasp my understanding of the secret about 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.

To me, the very least of all the saints, this grace was given so that I might proclaim to the gentiles the immeasurable wealth of the Messiah

in keeping with the eternal purpose that God carried out through 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 would make his home in your hearts through faith. Then, having been rooted and grounded in love,

that is, you will know the love of the Messiah which transcends knowledge, and will 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 to each one of us grace has been given proportionate 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.

Instead, by speaking the truth in love, we will grow up completely and become one with the head, that is, one with the Messiah,

However, that is not the way you came to know the Messiah.

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

Live lovingly, just as the Messiah also loved us and gave himself for us as an offering and sacrifice, a fragrant aroma to God.

For you know very well that no immoral or impure person, or anyone who is greedy (that is, an idolater), has an inheritance in the kingdom of the Messiah and of God.

for the light is making everything visible. That is why it says, "Wake up, sleeper! Arise 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;

and you will submit to one another out of reverence for the Messiah.

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.

May peace and love, with faith, be with the brothers, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus, the Messiah!

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