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Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, to the saints who are in Ephesus, and to the 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 did bless us in every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,
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according as He did choose us in him before the foundation of the world, for our being holy and unblemished before Him, in love,
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having foreordained us to the adoption of sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will,