just as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him in love,[a] having predestined us to adoption through Jesus Christ to himself according to the good pleasure of his will, to the praise of the glory of his grace that he bestowed on us in the beloved,

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Footnotes

  1. Ephesians 1:4 Or “before him, having predestined us in love” (the phrase “in love” could go either with v. 4 or v. 5)