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,

according as He did choose us in him before the foundation of the world, for our being holy and unblemished before Him, in love,

to the praise of the glory of His grace, in which He did make us accepted in the beloved,

in which He did abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence,

in whom also we did obtain an inheritance, being foreordained according to the purpose of Him who the all things is working according to the counsel of His will,

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

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,

and all things He did put under his feet, and did give him -- head over all things to the assembly,

Also you -- being dead in the trespasses and the sins,

in which once ye did walk according to the age of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience,

among whom also we all did walk once in the desires of our flesh, doing the wishes of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were by nature children of wrath -- as also the others,

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,

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

for he is our peace, who did make both one, and the middle wall of the enclosure did break down,

and having come, he did proclaim good news -- peace to you -- the far-off and the nigh,

if, indeed, ye did hear of the dispensation of the grace of God that was given to me in regard to you,

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,

who, having ceased to feel, themselves did give up to the lasciviousness, for the working of all uncleanness in greediness;

and ye did not so learn the Christ,

if so be ye did hear him, and in him were taught, as truth is in Jesus;

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,

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

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

for no one ever his own flesh did hate, but doth nourish and cherish it, as also the Lord -- the assembly,

whom I did send unto you for this very thing, that ye might know the things concerning us, and that he might comfort your hearts.