Ephesians:1:3-14

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* Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ , who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ , * just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world , that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love , * having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself , according to the good pleasure of His will , * to the praise of the glory of His grace , by which He made us accepted in the Beloved . * In Him we have redemption through His blood , the forgiveness of sins , according to the riches of His grace * which He made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence , * having made known to us the mystery of His will , according to His good pleasure which He purposed in Himself , * that in the dispensation of the fullness of the times He might gather together in one all things in Christ , both which are in heaven and which are on earth--in Him . * In Him also we have obtained an inheritance , being predestined according to the purpose of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His will , * that we who first trusted in Christ should be to the praise of His glory . * In Him you also trusted , after you heard the word of truth , the gospel of your salvation ; in whom also , having believed , you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise , * who is the guarantee of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession , to the praise of His glory .

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