GOD'S WORD Translation GW
New International Version NIV
2 Good will and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ are yours!
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Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
3 Praise the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! Through Christ, God has blessed us with every spiritual blessing that heaven has to offer.
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Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ.
4 Before the creation of the world, he chose us through Christ to be holy and perfect in his presence.
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For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love
5 Because of his love he had already decided to adopt us through Jesus Christ. He freely chose to do this
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he predestined us for adoption to sonship through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will—
6 so that the kindness he had given us in his dear Son would be praised and given glory.
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to the praise of his glorious grace, which he has freely given us in the One he loves.
7 Through the blood of his Son, we are set free from our sins. God forgives our failures because of his overflowing kindness.
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In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God’s grace
8 He poured out his kindness by giving us every kind of wisdom and insight
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that he lavished on us. With all wisdom and understanding,
9 when he revealed the mystery of his plan to us. He had decided to do this through Christ.
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he made known to us the mystery of his will according to his good pleasure, which he purposed in Christ,
10 He planned to bring all of history to its goal in Christ. Then Christ would be the head of everything in heaven and on earth.
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to be put into effect when the times reach their fulfillment—to bring unity to all things in heaven and on earth under Christ.
11 God also decided ahead of time to choose us through Christ according to his plan, which makes everything work the way he intends.
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In him we were also chosen, having been predestined according to the plan of him who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of his will,
12 He planned all of this so that we who had already focused our hope on Christ would praise him and give him glory.
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in order that we, who were the first to put our hope in Christ, might be for the praise of his glory.
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