2 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord, Jesus Christ.
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord, Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ;
4 even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without blemish before him in love;
5 having predestined us for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his desire,
6 to the praise of the glory of his grace, which he freely bestowed on us in the Beloved,
7 in whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,
8 which he made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence,
