Ephesians 1 – Blessed be you God, Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. You have blessed me in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms. For you chose me in Him before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless in your presence. In love you predestined me for adoption as your son through Jesus Christ, according to the good pleasure of your will, Oh! praise your glorious grace, which you have freely given me in the Beloved One.

In Jesus I have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of my trespasses, according to the riches of your grace that you lavished on me with all wisdom and understanding. And you have made known to me and to all in Christ the mystery of your will according to your good pleasure, which you purposed in Christ as a plan for the fullness of time, to bring all things in heaven and on earth together in Christ.

In Jesus I was also chosen as your own, having been predestined according to your plan; you who works out everything by the counsel of your will; in order that I, who am now among those who were the first to hope in Christ, would be for the praise of your glory.

And in Christ, having heard and believed the word of truth—the gospel of my salvation—you sealed me with the promised Holy Spirit, who is the pledge of all the Believer’s inheritance until the redemption of all we who are your possession, to the praise of your glory.

For this reason, even those like Paul before me ever since he heard about the faith of Believers in the Lord Jesus and our love for all the saints, he had not stopped giving thanks for the Believers, remembering them in his prayers, that you, the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, would give us a spirit of wisdom and revelation in our knowledge of Christ.

Paul asked, and I do now, that the eyes of my heart  may be enlightened, so that I may know the hope of your calling, the riches of your glorious inheritance in the saints, and the surpassing greatness of your power to us who believe. These are in accordance with the working of your mighty strength, which you exerted in Christ when you raised Him from the dead and seated Him at your own right hand in the heavenly realms, far above all rule and authority, power and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in the present age but also in the one to come.

And you Father, put everything under Jesus’ feet and made Him head over everything for the church, which is His body, the fullness of you who fills all in all.