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Ephesians: The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Ephesians

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, to the saints that are at Ephesus, and the faithful in Christ Jesus:  Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ:  even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blemish before him in love:  having foreordained us unto adoption as sons through Jesus Christ unto himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,  to the praise of the glory of his grace, which he freely bestowed on us in the Beloved:  in whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,  which he made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence,  making known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him  unto a dispensation of the fulness of the times, to sum up all things in Christ, the things in the heavens, and the things upon the earth; in him, I say,  in whom also we were made a heritage, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his will;  to the end that we should be unto the praise of his glory, we who had before hoped in Christ:  in whom ye also, having heard the word of the truth, the gospel of your salvation,-- in whom, having also believed, ye were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise,  which is an earnest of our inheritance, unto the redemption of God's own possession, unto the praise of his glory.  For this cause I also, having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which is among you, and the love which ye show toward all the saints,  cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers;  that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him;  having the eyes of your heart enlightened, that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,  and what the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to that working of the strength of his might  which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and made him to sit at his right hand in the heavenly places,  far above all rule, and authority, and power, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come:  and he put all things in subjection under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things to the church,  which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.

And you did he make alive, when ye were dead through your trespasses and sins,  wherein ye once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the powers of the air, of the spirit that now worketh in the sons of disobedience;  among whom we also all once lived in the lust of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest:--  but God, being rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,  even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace have ye been saved),  and raised us up with him, and made us to sit with him in the heavenly places, in Christ Jesus:  that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus:  for by grace have ye been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God;  not of works, that no man should glory.  For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God afore prepared that we should walk in them.  Wherefore remember, that once ye, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called Circumcision, in the flesh, made by hands;  that ye were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.  But now in Christ Jesus ye that once were far off are made nigh in the blood of Christ.  For he is our peace, who made both one, and brake down the middle wall of partition,  having abolished in the flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; that he might create in himself of the two one new man, so making peace;  and might reconcile them both in one body unto God through the cross, having slain the enmity thereby:  and he came and preached peace to you that were far off, and peace to them that were nigh:  for through him we both have our access in one Spirit unto the Father.  So then ye are no more strangers and sojourners, but ye are fellow-citizens with the saints, and of the household of God,  being built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief corner stone;  in whom each several building, fitly framed together, groweth into a holy temple in the Lord;  in whom ye also are builded together for a habitation of God in the Spirit.