Selah · Bible verse

Ephesians 1:5

having predestined us for adoption as children through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his desire,
Ephesians 1:5 · World English Bible

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3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ;

4even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without defect before him in love;

5having predestined us for adoption as children through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his desire,

6to the praise of the glory of his grace, by which he freely bestowed favor on us in the Beloved,

7in whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,

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