2 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
3 Blessed be 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, to be holy and blameless before Him in love;
5 He predestined us to adoption as sons to Himself through Jesus Christ according to the good pleasure of His will,
6 to the praise of the glory of His grace which He graciously bestowed on us in the Beloved.
7 In Him we have redemption through His blood and the forgiveness of sins according to the riches of His grace,
8 which He lavished on us in all wisdom and insight,