1. Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, to the saints who are in Ephesus and faithful in Christ Jesus:
2. Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
3. 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,
4. just as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him in love,
5. having predestined us to adoption through Jesus Christ to himself according to the good pleasure of his will,
6. to the praise of the glory of his grace that he bestowed on us in the beloved,
7. in whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace,
8. that he caused to abound to us in all wisdom and insight,