Blessed and gathered in Messiah

Chosen, Sealed, and Enlightened · Ephesians 1

Story guide: Celestial light and olive branches interpret Paul’s praise of adoption, redemption, and all things gathered in Messiah.

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

4just as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, to be holy and blameless before him in love,

5having predestined us for adoption through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,

6to the praise of the glory of his grace, with which he has favored us in the Beloved,

7In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of trespasses, according to the riches of his grace

8which he lavished on us in all wisdom and insight,

9having made known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure, which he purposed in himself

10for the administration of the fullness of the times, to sum up all things in the Messiah—the things in the heavens and the things on the earth—in him,

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