3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly things in Christ;
4 according as he has chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blemish before him in charity;
5 having marked out beforehand the way for us to be adopted as sons by Jesus Christ in himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,
6 to the praise of the glory of his grace, in which he has made us accepted in the beloved;
7 in whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins according to the riches of his grace,
8 which has over abounded in us in all wisdom and prudence;
9 having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he has purposed in himself,