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Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, to the saints who are in Ephesus and faithful in Christ Jesus:
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Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
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Blessed [is] the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly [places] in Christ,
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just as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, [that] we should be holy and blameless before him in love,
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having predestined us to adoption through Jesus Christ to himself according to the good pleasure of his will,
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