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, a legate of Jesus the Messiah by the pleasure of God, to them who are at Ephesus, sanctified, and believing in Jesus the Messiah:
2 May grace and peace be granted to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Peace be with you, and grace from God our Father, and from our Lord Jesus 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 God, the Father of our Lord Jesus the Messiah, who hath blessed us with all blessings of the Spirit in heaven, by the 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.
according as he had previously chosen us in him, before the foundation of the world, that we might be holy and without blame before him; and, in love, predestinated us for himself;
5 For He pre-destined us to be adopted by Himself as sons through Jesus Christ--such being His gracious will and pleasure--
and adopted us for sons, in Jesus the Messiah, as was agreeable to his pleasure:
6 to the praise of the splendour of His grace with which He has enriched us in the beloved One.
that the glory of his grace might be glorified, which he poured upon us by his 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,
by whom we have redemption, and the forgiveness of sins by his blood, according to the riches of his grace,
8 the grace which He, the possessor of all wisdom and understanding, lavished upon us,
which hath abounded in us, in all wisdom and all spiritual understanding.
9 when He made known to us the secret of His will. And this is in harmony with God's merciful purpose
And he hath made us know the mystery of his pleasure, which he had before determined in himself to accomplish,
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.
in the dispensation of the fullness of times; that all things might again be made new in the Messiah, things in heaven and things on earth.
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,
And in him we are elected, according as he predestined us and willed, who worketh all things according to the counsel of his pleasure;
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.
that we should be they who first hoped in the Messiah, to the honor of his glory.
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, ye also have heard the word of truth, which is the gospel of your life, and have believed in him; and have been sealed with the Holy Spirit, who was promised,
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 the earnest of our inheritance, until the redemption of them that are alive, and for 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,
Therefore, lo I also, since I heard of your faith in our Lord Jesus the Messiah, and of your love towards all the saints,
16 offer never ceasing thanks on your behalf while I make mention of you in my prayers.
cease not to give thanks on your account, and to remember 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 Jesus the Messiah, the Father of glory, may give to you the Spirit of wisdom and of revelation, in the recognition 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,
and that the eyes of your hearts may be enlightened, so that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints;
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 excellence of the majesty of his power in us who believe; according to the efficiency of the strength of his power,
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 put forth in the Messiah, and raised him from the dead, and seated him at his right hand in heaven,
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)
high above all principalities, and authorities, and powers, and lordships, and above every name that is named, not only in this world but also in that 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,
and he hath subjected all things under his feet; and hath given him who is high over all, to be the head of the church;
23 the completeness of Him who everywhere fills the universe with Himself.
which is his body, and the fullness of him who filleth all in all:
