Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who through Christ has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realm.

Through Him He picked us out before the creation of the world, to be consecrated and above reproach in His sight in love.

He foreordained us to become His sons by adoption through Christ Jesus, to carry out the happy choice of His will,

It is through union with Him that we have redemption by His blood and the forgiveness of our shortcomings, in accordance with the generosity of His unmerited favor

which He lavished upon us. Through perfect wisdom and spiritual insight

so that, at the coming of the climax of the ages, everything in heaven and on earth should be unified through Christ,

that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may grant you the Spirit to give wisdom and revelation which come through a growing knowledge of Him,

And He raised us with Him and through union with Christ Jesus He made us sit down with Him in the heavenly realm,

to show, throughout the coming ages, the boundless generosity of His unmerited favor shown us in His goodness to us through Christ Jesus.

For it is by His unmerited favor through faith that you have been saved; it is not by anything that you have done, it is the gift of God.

For He has made us what we are, because He has created us through our union with Christ Jesus for doing good deeds which He beforehand planned for us to do.

But now through your union with Christ Jesus you who were once far away have through the blood of Christ been brought near.

through His human nature He has put a stop to the hostility between us, namely, the law with its commands and decrees, in order to create one new humanity out of the two parties and so make peace through union with Himself, and in one body

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

for it is by Him through one Spirit that both of us now have an introduction to the Father.

In union with Him the whole building is harmoniously fitted together and continues to grow into a temple, sacred through its union with the Lord,

and you yourselves, in union with Him, in fellowship with one another, are being built up into a dwelling for God through the Spirit.

which in the earlier ages, so different from the present, was not made known to mankind as fully as now, but through the Spirit it has been revealed to His Holy apostles and prophets --

that the heathen through union with Christ Jesus are fellow-heirs with the Jews, are members with them of the same body, and sharers with them of the promise through the good news,

so that the many phases of God's wisdom may now through the church be made known to the rulers and authorities in heaven,

By union with Him and through faith in Him we have a free and confidential introduction to God.

and that Christ in His love, through your faith, may make His permanent home in your hearts. You must be deeply rooted, your foundations must be strong,

be glory in the church and through Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever. Amen.

continuing with eager earnestness to maintain the unity of the Spirit through the tie of peace.

so that we may not be babies any longer, or like sailors tossed about and driven around by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men through their cunning in inventing new methods of error.

You must practice being kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, just as God through Christ has graciously forgiven you.

to consecrate her, after cleansing her through His word, as pictured in the water bath,

From now on you must grow stronger through union with the Lord and through His mighty power.