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Paul, an apostle of Messiah YAHUSHUA through the will of YAHUVEH, to the saints that are at Ephesus, and the faithful in Messiah YAHUSHUA: |
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Grace to you and peace from YAHUVEH our Father and the Master YAHUSHUA Messiah. |
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Blessed be the YAHUVEH and Father of our Master YAHUSHUA the Messiah, who hath blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Messiah: |
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even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blemish before him in love: |
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having foreordained us unto adoption as sons through YAHUSHUA the Messiah unto himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, |
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to the praise of the glory of his grace, which he freely bestowed on us in the Beloved: |
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in whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace, |
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which he made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence, |
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making known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him |
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unto a dispensation of the fulness of the times, to sum up all things in Messiah, the things in the heavens, and the things upon the earth; in him, I say, |
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in whom also we were made a heritage, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his will; |
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to the end that we should be unto the praise of his glory, we who had before hoped in Messiah: |
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in whom ye also, having heard the word of the truth, the evangel of your salvation,-- in whom, having also believed, ye were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, |
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which is an earnest of our inheritance, unto the redemption of YAHUVEH's own possession, unto the praise of his glory. |
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For this cause I also, having heard of the faith in the Master YAHUSHUA which is among you, and the love which ye show toward all the saints, |
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cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers; |
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that the YAHUVEH of our Master YAHUSHUA the Messiah, the Father of glory, may give unto you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him; |
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having the eyes of your heart enlightened, that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, |
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and what the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to that working of the strength of his might |
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which he wrought in Messiah, when he raised him from the dead, and made him to sit at his right hand in the heavenly places, |
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far above all rule, and authority, and power, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come: |
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and he put all things in subjection under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things to the assembly, |
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which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all. |