According as he made choice of us, in him, before the founding of a world, that we might be holy and blameless in his presence; in love,

And what the surpassing greatness of his power unto us who believe, - according to the energy of the grasp of his might

That he might point out, in the oncoming ages, the surpassing riches of his favour in graciousness upon us, in Christ Jesus;

His, in fact we are - his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus upon a footing of good works, which God prepared beforehand, that, therein, we might walk.

The enmity, in his flesh - the law of commandments in decrees - bringing to nought, - that, the two, he might create in himself, into one man of new mould, making peace.

And might fully reconcile them both, in one body, through means of the cross, - slaying the enmity thereby; -

In order that now, unto the principalities and the authorities in the heavenlies, might be made known, through means of the assembly, the manifold wisdom of God, -

In order that ye may be mighty enough to grasp firmly, with all the saints, - what is the breadth and length and depth and height,

He that descended, he, it is who also ascended over-above all the heavens, that he might fill all things;

That, her, he might sanctify, having purified her with the bath of water, in declaration,

That, he, might present, unto himself, the assembly, all glorious, not having spot or wrinkle or any of such things, but that she should be holy and blameless;

For the rest, be empowering yourselves in the Lord, and in the grasp of his might: