3 Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,
4 just as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him in love,
5 having predestined us to adoption through Jesus Christ to himself according to the good pleasure of his will,
6 to the praise of the glory of his grace that he bestowed on us in the beloved,
7 in whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace,
8 that he caused to abound to us in all wisdom and insight,
9 making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure that he purposed in him,