¹ Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, to the holy-ones who are in Ephesus and the faithful in Christ Jesus:

² grace to you° and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

³ Gracious$ is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who blessed us in every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,

⁴ just-as he chose us in him before the conception of the world, for us to be holy and unblemished in his sight in love$.

⁵ God beforehand determined us toward the sonship through Jesus Christ to himself, according-to the delight of his will,

⁶ to the praise of the glory of his favor {‘favor’ and ‘grace’ are from the same Greek word in the MLV} , in which he favored us in the beloved,

⁷ in whom we have the redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of the trespasses of us according-to the riches of his grace.

⁸ It is this grace which abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence.

⁹ And God made known to us the mystery of his will, according-to his delight which he purposed in him,

¹⁰ to a stewardship of the fullness of the times, to sum up all things in the Christ, the things upon the heavens and the things upon the earth.

¹¹ It was in him, in whom also we were made an inheritance, having been determined beforehand according-to the purpose of the one who is working all things according-to the plan of his will.

¹² This was so $that$ we should be to the praise of his glory, even us, the ones who have hoped before in the Christ,

¹³ in whom you° also heard the word of the truth, the good-news of your° salvation, in whom, after also believed, you° were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise,

¹⁴ who is a down-payment of our inheritance, to the redemption of the ownership of God to the praise of his glory.

¹⁵ Because of this, I, also heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which is in you° and the love$ which you° have toward all the holy-ones,

¹⁶ am not ceasing giving-thanks on your° behalf, making$ a remembrance of you° in my prayers,

¹⁷ in-order-that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you° a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the full knowledge of him.

¹⁸ The eyes of your° heart have been enlightened, $that$ you° may know what is the hope of his calling and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance among the holy-ones,

¹⁹ and what is the surpassing greatness of his power toward us who believe, according-to the working of the dominion of his strength,

²⁰ which he worked in the Christ, when he raised him from the dead and seated him by his right hand in the heavenly places,

²¹ up above all rule and authority and power and lordship and every name that is being named, not only in this age, but also in the future age.

²² And he subjected all things under his feet and gave him to be head above all things to the congregation$ of believers,

²³ which is his body, the fullness of the one filling all in all.