Salutation

1Paul, apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the saints who are at Ephesus, ⁰that is, the faithful in Christ Jesus: ¹

2Grace to you and peace from God our Father and Sovereign Jesus Christ. ²

A paean of doctrinal praise

3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, ³who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms ⁴in Christ; ⁵

4just as He[F] ⁶chose us in Him[S] before the foundation of the world, ⁷that we should be holy and blameless before Him[F], in love, ⁸

5having predestined us into an adoption as sons through Jesus Christ, into Him[S], according to the good pleasure of His[F] will,

6to the praise of the glory of His grace, with which He graced us in the Beloved;

7in whom we have the redemption through His[S] blood, ⁹the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His[F] grace,

8that He made to abound toward us in all wisdom and intelligent design, ¹⁰

9having made known to us the ‘secret’ of His will, according to His good pleasure which He purposed in Him[S],

10with a view to administering the fullness of the times, ¹¹so as to bring all things together under one head in Christ—those on the heavens ¹²and those on the earth—in Him[S],

11in whom we were also assigned an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of Him[F] who works all things according to the decision of His will,

12so that we should be to the praise of His glory, ¹³we who first trusted in the Christ;

13about whom, to be sure, we had heard the true Word ¹⁴—the Gospel of your salvation; by whom, since you also believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise,

14who is the down payment on our inheritance until the release of the possession, ¹⁵to the praise of His glory. ¹⁶

Some doctrinal praying

15Because of this, having heard about your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love toward all the saints,

16I really do not stop giving thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers:

17that the God of our Lord, Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, ¹⁷may give you the spirit of wisdom and revelation ¹⁸in the real knowledge ¹⁹of Himself,

18the eyes of your heart having been enlightened, that you may know ²⁰1) what is the hope of His[F] calling, ²¹and 2) what the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, ²²

19and 3) what the exceeding greatness of His power into ²³us who are believing, according to the demonstration of the extent of His might

20which He exercised in the Christ when He raised Him[S] from among the dead and seated Him at His[F] right, in the heavenly realms,

21far above every ruler and authority and power and dominion ²⁴—even every name that can be named, not only in this age but also in the next.

22In short, He[F] placed everything under His[S] feet, and appointed Him to be Head over everything in the Church, ²⁵

23which is His body, the complement ²⁶of Him who fills everything in every way.