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The Father’s Plan of Salvation. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavens,
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as he chose us in him, before the foundation of the world, to be holy and without blemish before him. In love
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he destined us for adoption to himself through Jesus Christ, in accord with the favor of his will,
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Fulfillment Through Christ. In him we have redemption by his blood, the forgiveness of transgressions, in accord with the riches of his grace
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that he lavished upon us. In all wisdom and insight,
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he has made known to us the mystery of his will in accord with his favor that he set forth in him
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as a plan for the fullness of times, to sum up all things in Christ, in heaven and on earth.
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Inheritance Through the Spirit. In him we were also chosen, destined in accord with the purpose of the One who accomplishes all things according to the intention of his will,
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In him you also, who have heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and have believed in him, were sealed with the promised holy Spirit,
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Therefore, I, too, hearing of your faith in the Lord Jesus and of your love for all the holy ones,
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and what is the surpassing greatness of his power for us who believe, in accord with the exercise of his great might,
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And he put all things beneath his feet and gave him as head over all things to the church,
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which is his body, the fullness of the one who fills all things in every way.
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All of us once lived among them in the desires of our flesh, following the wishes of the flesh and the impulses, and we were by nature children of wrath, like the rest.
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even when we were dead in our transgressions, brought us to life with Christ (by grace you have been saved),
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raised us up with him, and seated us with him in the heavens in Christ Jesus,
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were at that time without Christ, alienated from the community of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, without hope and without God in the world.
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abolishing the law with its commandments and legal claims, that he might create in himself one new person in place of the two, thus establishing peace,
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and might reconcile both with God, in one body, through the cross, putting that enmity to death by it.
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So then you are no longer strangers and sojourners, but you are fellow citizens with the holy ones and members of the household of God,
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built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the capstone.
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Of this I became a minister by the gift of God’s grace that was granted me in accord with the exercise of his power.
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To me, the very least of all the holy ones, this grace was given, to preach to the Gentiles the inscrutable riches of Christ,
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and to bring to light [for all] what is the plan of the mystery hidden from ages past in God who created all things,
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that he may grant you in accord with the riches of his glory to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inner self,