noyes@Ephesians:1:3 @ Blessed be God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly regions in Christ;
noyes@Ephesians:1:4 @ according as he chose us in him, before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him;
noyes@Ephesians:1:5 @ having in love predestinated us for himself to be adopted as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the good pleasure of his will,