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Paul an apostle of Iesus Christe by the wyll of God: To the saintes which are at Ephesus, and to the faythfull in Christe Iesus:

Grace be with you, and peace, from God our father, & from the Lorde Iesus Christe.

Blessed be God, the father of our Lorde Iesus Christe, whiche hath blessed vs in all spirituall blessyng, in heauenly thynges by Christe:

According as he had chosen vs in hym before the foundation of the world, that we shoulde be holy, and without blame before hym, through loue.

Who hath predestinate vs into the adoption of childre, by Iesus Christ vnto hym selfe, according to the good pleasure of his wyll:

To the prayse of the glorie of his grace, wherein he hath made vs accepted in the beloued.

In whom we haue redemption through his blood, the forgeuenesse of sinnes, accordyng to the rychesse of his grace,

Wherein he hath abounded towarde vs in all wysedome and prudence.

And hath opened vnto vs the misterie of his wyll, accordyng to his good pleasure which he had purposed in himselfe.

That in the dispensation of the fulnesse of the tymes, he myght gather together in one all thinges in Christe, both which are in heauen, and which are in earth, in hym.

In whom also we are chosen, beyng predestinate accordyng to the purpose of hym who worketh all thynges after the councell of his owne wyll:

That we shoulde be vnto the prayse of his glorie, whiche before beleued in Christe.

In whom also ye, after that ye heard the worde of trueth, the Gospell of your saluation, wherin also after that ye beleued, were sealed with the holy spirite of promyse,

Whiche is the earnest of our inheritaunce, vnto ye redemption of the purchased possession, vnto the prayse of his glorie.

Wherfore I also after that I hearde of the fayth which ye haue in the Lorde Iesus, and loue vnto all the saintes,

Ceasse not to geue thankes for you, makyng mention of you in my prayers:

That the God of our Lorde Iesus Christe, the father of glorie, may geue vnto you the spirite of wisdome and reuelation, in the knowledge of hym:

The eyes of your myndes beyng lightened, that ye maye knowe what the hope is of his callyng, and what the richesse of the glorie of his inheritaunce [is] in the saintes:

And what is the exceedyng greatnesse of his power to vswarde, which beleue, accordyng to the workyng of his myghtie power,

Which he wrought in Christe when he raysed hym from the dead, and set him on his ryght hande in heauenly [places]

Farre aboue all rule, and power, and myght, and dominion, and euery name that is named, not in this worlde only, but also in the worlde to come.

And hath put all thynges vnder his feete, and gaue him [to be] the head ouer all thynges to the Churche,

Which is his body, the fulnesse of him that fylleth all in all.

And you that were dead in trespasses and sinnes,

In the which in time passed ye walked, according to the course of this worlde, after the gouernour that ruleth in the ayre, the spirite that nowe worketh in the chyldren of disobedience.

Among whom we all had our conuersation also in tyme past in the lustes of our flesshe, fulfyllyng the wyll of the flesshe, and of the mynde, & were by nature the chyldren of wrath, euen as other:

But God which is ryche in mercie, for his great loue wherwith he loued vs,

Euen when we were dead by sinnes, hath quickned vs together with Christ, by grace are ye saued:

And hath raysed [vs] vp together, and made [vs] syt together in the heauenly in Christe Iesus.

That in ages to come, he might shew the exceedyng ryches of his grace, in kyndnesse to vswarde through Christe Iesus.

For by grace are ye made safe through fayth, and that not of your selues, it is the gyft of God:

Not of workes, lest any man shoulde boast hym selfe.

For we are his workmanship, created in Christe Iesus vnto good workes, whiche God hath ordeyned that we shoulde walke in them.

Wherfore, remember that ye being in tyme passed gentiles in the flesshe, called vncircumcision of that which is called circumcision in the flesshe, made by handes:

That at that tyme ye were without Christe, beyng aliauntes from the common wealth of Israel, and straungers fro the testamentes of promise, hauyng no hope, & without God in this worlde.

But nowe in Christe Iesus, ye which sometyme were farre of, are made nye by the blood of Christe.

For he is our peace, which hath made both one: and hath broken downe the wall that was a stoppe betwene vs,

Taking away in his flesshe the hatred, [euen] the lawe of commaundementes, [conteyned] in ordinaunces, for to make of twayne one newe man in hym selfe, so makyng peace,

And that he myght reconcile both vnto God in one body through [his] crosse, and slewe hatred thereby.

And came and preached peace to you which were a farre of, and to them that were nye.

For through hym, we both haue an entraunce in one spirite vnto the father.

Nowe therefore, ye are no more straungers and foreyners: but citezins with the saintes, and of the housholde of God,

And are built vpon the foundation of the apostles and prophetes, Iesus Christe hym selfe beyng the head corner stone,

In whom all the buyldyng coupled together, groweth vnto an holy temple in the Lorde.

In whom ye also are buylded together for an habitation of God through the spirite.

For this cause I Paul [am] a prisoner of Iesus Christe, for you heathen:

Yf ye haue hearde of the dispensatio of the grace of God, which is geuen me to youwarde:

For by reuelation shewed he the misterie vnto me (as I wrote afore in fewe wordes:

Whereby, when ye reade, ye may vnderstande my knowledge in the misterie of Christe)

Which [misterie] in other ages was not opened vnto the sonnes of men, as it is nowe reuealed vnto his holy apostles and prophetes by the spirite,

That the gentiles shoulde be inheritours also, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise in Christe, by the Gospell:

Wherof I am made a minister, accordyng to the gyfte of the grace of God, which is geuen vnto me after the workyng of his power.

Unto me the least of all saintes is this grace geuen, that I shoulde preache among the gentiles the vnsearchable ryches of Christe,

And to bring to lyght to all men what the felowship of the misterie is whiche from the begynnyng of the world hath ben hid in god, which made all thinges through Iesus Christe:

To thintent that nowe vnto the rulers and power in heauenly [thynges] myght be knowen by ye Church, the very manyfolde wysedome of God:

According to ye eternall purpose which he wrought in Christe Iesus our Lord:

By who we haue boldnesse & entraunce in ye confidence which is by faith of him.

Wherfore I desire that ye faynt not in my tribulations for you, whiche is your glorie.

For this cause I bowe my knees vnto the father of our Lorde Iesus Christe,

Of who all the famyly in heauen and earth is named:

That he would graunt you, according to the rychesse of his glorie, to be strengthed with myght by his spirite in the inner man.

That Christe may dwell in your heartes by fayth: that ye beyng rooted and grounded in loue,

Myght be able to comprehende with al saintes, what is the breadth, & length, and deapth, and heygth:

And to knowe the loue of Christe, whiche excelleth knowledge, that ye might be fylled with all fulnesse of God.

Unto him that is able to do exceeding aboundauntly aboue all that we aske or thynke, accordyng to the power that worketh in vs,

Be prayse in the Churche by Christe Iesus, throughout all ages, worlde without ende. Amen.