Ephesians 1
1 Paul, an Apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God: To God's people who are in Ephesus--believers in Christ Jesus.
Paul, an emissary of Messiah Yeshua through the will of God, to the kadoshim (in Ephesus) who are faithful in Messiah Yeshua:
2 May grace and peace be granted to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Yeshua the Messiah.
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has crowned us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms in Christ;
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Messiah;
4 even as, in His love, He chose us as His own in Christ before the creation of the world, that we might be holy and without blemish in His presence.
even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without blemish before him in love;
5 For He pre-destined us to be adopted by Himself as sons through Jesus Christ--such being His gracious will and pleasure--
having predestined us for adoption as sons through Yeshua the Messiah to himself, according to the good pleasure of his desire,
6 to the praise of the splendour of His grace with which He has enriched us in the beloved One.
to the praise of the glory of his grace, which he freely bestowed on us in the Beloved One,
7 It is in Him, and through the shedding of His blood, that we have our deliverance--the forgiveness of our offences--so abundant was God's grace,
in whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,
8 the grace which He, the possessor of all wisdom and understanding, lavished upon us,
which he made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence,
9 when He made known to us the secret of His will. And this is in harmony with God's merciful purpose
making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him
10 for the government of the world when the times are ripe for it--the purpose which He has cherished in His own mind of restoring the whole creation to find its one Head in Christ; yes, things in Heaven and things on earth, to find their one Head in Him.
to an administration of the fullness of the times, to sum up all things in Messiah, the things in the heavens, and the things on the earth, in him;
11 In Him we Jews have been made heirs, having been chosen beforehand in accordance with the intention of Him whose might carries out in everything the design of His own will,
in whom also we were assigned an inheritance, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who works all things after the counsel of his will;
12 so that we should be devoted to the extolling of His glorious attributes--we who were the first to fix our hopes on Christ.
to the end that we should be to the praise of his glory, we who had before hoped in Messiah:
13 And in Him you Gentiles also, after listening to the Message of the truth, the Good News of your salvation--having believed in Him--were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit;
in whom you also, having heard the word of the truth, the Good News of your salvation, —in whom, having also believed, you were sealed with the Ruach ha-Kodesh of promise,
14 that Spirit being a pledge and foretaste of our inheritance, in anticipation of its full redemption--the inheritance which He has purchased to be specially His for the extolling of His glory.
who is a pledge of our inheritance, to the redemption of God's own possession, to the praise of his glory.
15 For this reason I too, having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which prevails among you, and of your love for all God's people,
For this cause I also, having heard of the faith in the Lord Yeshua which is among you, and the love which you have toward all the kadoshim,
16 offer never ceasing thanks on your behalf while I make mention of you in my prayers.
do not cease to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers,
17 For I always beseech the God of our Lord Jesus Christ--the Father most glorious--to give you a spirit of wisdom and penetration through an intimate knowledge of Him,
that the God of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him;
18 the eyes of your understanding being enlightened so that you may know what is the hope which His call to you inspires, what the wealth of the glory of His inheritance in God's people,
having the eyes of your heart enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the kadoshim,
19 and what the transcendent greatness of His power in us believers as seen in the working of His infinite might
and what is the exceeding greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to that working of the strength of his might
20 when He displayed it in Christ by raising Him from the dead and seating Him at His own right hand in the heavenly realms,
which he worked in Messiah, when he raised him from the dead, and made him to sit at his right hand in the heavenly places,
21 high above all other government and authority and power and dominion, and every title of sovereignty used either in this Age or in the Age to come. (aiōn g165)
far above all rule, and authority, and power, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age, but also in that which is to come. (aiōn g165)
22 God has put all things under His feet, and has appointed Him universal and supreme Head of the Church, which is His Body,
He put all things under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things for the congregation,
23 the completeness of Him who everywhere fills the universe with Himself.
which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.
