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| | Eph 1:1 | Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, to the saints that are at Ephesus, and the faithful in Christ Jesus:
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| | Eph 1:2 | Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
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| | Eph 1:3 | Blessed `be' the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly `places' in Christ:
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| | Eph 1:4 | even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blemish before him in love:
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| | Eph 1:5 | having foreordained us unto adoption as sons through Jesus Christ unto himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,
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| | Eph 1:6 | to the praise of the glory of his grace, which he freely bestowed on us in the Beloved:
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| | Eph 1:7 | in whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,
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| | Eph 1:8 | which he made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence,
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| | Eph 1:9 | making known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him
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| | Eph 1:10 | unto a dispensation of the fulness of the times, to sum up all things in Christ, the things in the heavens, and the things upon the earth; in him, `I say,'
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| | Eph 1:11 | in whom also we were made a heritage, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his will;
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| | Eph 1:12 | to the end that we should be unto the praise of his glory, we who had before hoped in Christ:
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| | Eph 1:13 | in whom ye also, having heard the word of the truth, the gospel of your salvation,-- in whom, having also believed, ye were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise,
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| | Eph 1:14 | which is an earnest of our inheritance, unto the redemption of `God's' own possession, unto the praise of his glory.
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| | Eph 1:15 | For this cause I also, having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which is among you, and the love which `ye show' toward all the saints,
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| | Eph 1:16 | cease not to give thanks for you, making mention `of you' in my prayers;
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| | Eph 1:17 | that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him;
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| | Eph 1:18 | having the eyes of your heart enlightened, that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,
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| | Eph 1:19 | and what the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to that working of the strength of his might
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| | Eph 1:20 | which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and made him to sit at his right hand in the heavenly `places',
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| | Eph 1:21 | far above all rule, and authority, and power, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come:
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| | Eph 1:22 | and he put all things in subjection under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things to the church,
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| | Eph 1:23 | which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.
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