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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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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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having foreordained us unto adoption as sons through Jesus Christ unto himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,

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to the praise of the glory of his grace, which he freely bestowed on us in the Beloved:

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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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which he made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence,

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making known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him

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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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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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to the end that we should be unto the praise of his glory, we who had before hoped in Christ:

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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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which is an earnest of our inheritance, unto the redemption of [God's] own possession, unto the praise of his glory.