1. From Paul, chosen by God to be an apostle of Christ Jesus.To God's people who live in Ephesus and are faithful followers of Christ Jesus.
2. I pray that God our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ will be kind to you and will bless you with peace!
3. Praise the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ for the spiritual blessings that Christ has brought us from heaven!
4. Before the world was created, God had Christ choose us to live with him and to be his holy and innocent and loving people.
5. God was kind and decided that Christ would choose us to be God's own adopted children.
6. God was very kind to us because of the Son he dearly loves, and so we should praise God.
9. and by what Christ has done, God has shown us his own mysterious ways.
10. Then when the time is right, God will do all that he has planned, and Christ will bring together everything in heaven and on earth.
11. God always does what he plans, and that's why he appointed Christ to choose us.
12. He did this so that we Jews would bring honour to him and be the first ones to have hope because of him.
13. Christ also brought you the truth, which is the good news about how you can be saved. You put your faith in Christ and were given the promised Holy Spirit to show that you belong to God.