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1:1 Paul, apostle of Jesus Christ by God's will, to the saints
 and faithful in Christ Jesus who are at Ephesus.
1:2 Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and [the] Lord
 Jesus Christ.
1:3 Blessed [be] the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
 who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the
 heavenlies in Christ;
1:4 according as he has chosen us in him before [the] world's
 foundation, that we should be holy and blameless before him in
 love;
1:5 having marked us out beforehand for adoption through Jesus
 Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,
1:6 to [the] praise of [the] glory of his grace, wherein he has
 taken us into favour in the Beloved:
1:7 in whom we have redemption through his blood, the
 forgiveness of offences, according to the riches of his grace;
1:8 which he has caused to abound towards us in all wisdom and
 intelligence,
1:9 having made known to us the mystery of his will, according
 to his good pleasure which he purposed in himself
1:10 for [the] administration of the fulness of times; to head
 up all things in the Christ, the things in the heavens and the
 things upon the earth; in him,
1:11 in whom we have also obtained an inheritance, being marked
 out beforehand according to the purpose of him who works all
 things according to the counsel of his own will,
1:12 that we should be to [the] praise of his glory who have
 pre-trusted in the Christ:
1:13 in whom *ye* also [have trusted], having heard the word of
 the truth, the glad tidings of your salvation; in whom also,
 having believed, ye have been sealed with the Holy Spirit of
 promise,
1:14 who is [the] earnest of our inheritance to the redemption
 of the acquired possession to [the] praise of his glory.
1:15 Wherefore *I* also, having heard of the faith in the Lord
 Jesus which [is] in you, and the love which [ye have] towards
 all the saints,
1:16 do not cease giving thanks for you, making mention [of you]
 at my prayers,
1:17 that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory,
 would give you [the] spirit of wisdom and revelation in the
 full knowledge of him,
1:18 being enlightened in the eyes of your heart, so that ye
 should know what is the hope of his calling, [and] what the
 riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,
1:19 and what the surpassing greatness of his power towards us
 who believe, according to the working of the might of his
 strength,
1:20 [in] which he wrought in the Christ [in] raising him from
 among [the] dead, and he set him down at his right hand in the
 heavenlies,
1:21 above every principality, and authority, and power, and
 dominion, and every name named, not only in this age, but also
 in that to come;
1:22 and has put all things under his feet, and gave him [to be]
 head over all things to the assembly,
1:23 which is his body, the fulness of him who fills all in all:
2:1 and *you*, being dead in your offences and sins --
2:2 in which ye once walked according to the age of this world,
 according to the ruler of the authority of the air, the spirit
 who now works in the sons of disobedience:
2:3 among whom *we* also all once had our conversation in the
 lusts of our flesh, doing what the flesh and the thoughts
 willed to do, and were children, by nature, of wrath, even as
 the rest:
2:4 but God, being rich in mercy, because of his great love
 wherewith he loved us,
2:5 (we too being dead in offences,) has quickened us with the
 Christ, (ye are saved by grace,)
2:6 and has raised [us] up together, and has made [us] sit down
 together in the heavenlies in Christ Jesus,
2:7 that he might display in the coming ages the surpassing
 riches of his grace in kindness towards us in Christ Jesus.
2:8 For ye are saved by grace, through faith; and this not of
 yourselves; it is God's gift:
2:9 not on the principle of works, that no one might boast.
2:10 For we are his workmanship, having been created in Christ
 Jesus for good works, which God has before prepared that we
 should walk in them.
2:11 Wherefore remember that *ye*, once nations in [the] flesh,
 who [are] called uncircumcision by that called circumcision in
 [the] flesh done with the hand;
2:12 that ye were at that time without Christ, aliens from the
 commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of
 promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:
2:13 but now in Christ Jesus *ye* who once were afar off are
 become nigh by the blood of the Christ.
2:14 For *he* is our peace, who has made both one, and has
 broken down the middle wall of enclosure,
2:15 having annulled the enmity in his flesh, the law of
 commandments in ordinances, that he might form the two in
 himself into one new man, making peace;
2:16 and might reconcile both in one body to God by the cross,
 having by it slain the enmity;
2:17 and, coming, he has preached the glad tidings of peace to
 you who [were] afar off, and [the glad tidings of] peace to
 those [who were] nigh.
2:18 For through him we have both access by one Spirit to the
 Father.
2:19 So then ye are no longer strangers and foreigners, but ye
 are fellow-citizens of the saints, and of the household of God,
2:20 being built upon the foundation of the apostles and
 prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the corner-stone,
2:21 in whom all [the] building fitted together increases to a
 holy temple in the Lord;
2:22 in whom *ye* also are built together for a habitation of
 God in [the] Spirit.
3:1 For this reason *I* Paul, prisoner of the Christ Jesus for
 you nations,
3:2 (if indeed ye have heard of the administration of the grace
 of God which has been given to me towards you,
3:3 that by revelation the mystery has been made known to me,
 (according as I have written before briefly,
3:4 by which, in reading it, ye can understand my intelligence
 in the mystery of the Christ,)
3:5 which in other generations has not been made known to the
 sons of men, as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles
 and prophets in [the power of the] Spirit,
3:6 that [they who are of] the nations should be joint heirs,
 and a joint body, and joint partakers of [his] promise in
 Christ Jesus by the glad tidings;
3:7 of which I am become minister according to the gift of the
 grace of God given to me, according to the working of his
 power.
3:8 To me, less than the least of all saints, has this grace
 been given, to announce among the nations the glad tidings of
 the unsearchable riches of the Christ,
3:9 and to enlighten all [with the knowledge of] what is the
 administration of the mystery hidden throughout the ages in
 God, who has created all things,
3:10 in order that now to the principalities and authorities in
 the heavenlies might be made known through the assembly the
 all-various wisdom of God,
3:11 according to [the] purpose of the ages, which he purposed
 in Christ Jesus our Lord,
3:12 in whom we have boldness and access in confidence by the
 faith of him.
3:13 Wherefore I beseech [you] not to faint through my
 tribulations for you, which is your glory.
3:14 For this reason I bow my knees to the Father [of our Lord
 Jesus Christ],
3:15 of whom every family in [the] heavens and on earth is
 named,
3:16 in order that he may give you according to the riches of
 his glory, to be strengthened with power by his Spirit in the
 inner man;
3:17 that the Christ may dwell, through faith, in your hearts,
 being rooted and founded in love,
3:18 in order that ye may be fully able to apprehend with all
 the saints what [is] the breadth and length and depth and
 height;
3:19 and to know the love of the Christ which surpasses
 knowledge; that ye may be filled [even] to all the fulness of
 God.
3:20 But to him that is able to do far exceedingly above all
 which we ask or think, according to the power which works in
 us,
3:21 to him be glory in the assembly in Christ Jesus unto all
 generations of the age of ages. Amen).
4:1 *I*, the prisoner in [the] Lord, exhort you therefore to
 walk worthy of the calling wherewith ye have been called,
4:2 with all lo