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And in him we are elected, according as he predestined us and willed, who worketh all things according to the counsel of his pleasure;

that we should be they who first hoped in the Messiah, to the honor of his glory.

who is the earnest of our inheritance, until the redemption of them that are alive, and for the praise of his glory.

and that the eyes of your hearts may be enlightened, so that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints;

and what is the excellence of the majesty of his power in us who believe; according to the efficiency of the strength of his power,

which he put forth in the Messiah, and raised him from the dead, and seated him at his right hand in heaven,

and he hath subjected all things under his feet; and hath given him who is high over all, to be the head of the church;

which is his body, and the fullness of him who filleth all in all:

But God who is rich in his mercies, because of the great love with which he loved us,

when we were dead in our sins, quickened us with the Messiah, and rescued us by his grace;

that he might show to the coming ages the magnitude of the riches of his grace, and his benignity towards us in Jesus the Messiah.

For it is by his grace we are rescued, through faith; and this is not of yourselves, but it is the gift of God:

For we are his creation; who are created in Jesus the Messiah, for good works, which God hath before prepared for us to walk in.

For he is himself our peace, who hath made the two [fn] one, and hath demolished the wall which stood in the midst, and the enmity, by his flesh;

and by his prescriptions he hath abolished the law of ordinances; that, in himself, he might make the two to be one new man; and he hath made peace,

and hath reconciled both with God, in one body, and hath slain the enmity by his cross.

which in other generations was not made known to the sons of men, as it is now revealed to his holy legates and to his prophets, by the Spirit;

that the Gentiles should be sharers. of his inheritance, and partakers of his body, and of the promise which is given in him by the gospel;

of which I have been a minister, according to the gift of the goodness of God, which was imparted to me by the operation of his power:

through whom we have boldness and access, in the confidence of his faith.