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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 heavenlies, in Christ,

According as he made choice of us, in him, before the founding of a world, that we might be holy and blameless in his presence; in love,

marking us out beforehand unto sonship, through Jesus Christ, for himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,

Unto the praise of the glory of his favour wherewith he favoured us in the Beloved One, -

In whom we have the redemption through his blood, the remission of our offences, according to the riches of his favour,

which he made to superabound towards us; in all wisdom and prudence,

making known to us the sacred secret of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him, -

For an administration of the fulness of the seasons, to reunite for himself (under one head) the all things in the Christ, the things upon the heavens, and the things upon the earth, in him: