1:3 Blessed ¹  is ²  the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed ³  us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms in Christ. 1:4 For ⁴  he chose us in Christ ⁵  before the foundation of the world that we may be holy and unblemished ⁶  in his sight ⁷  in love. ⁸  1:5 He did this by predestining ⁹  us to adoption as his ¹⁰  sons ¹¹  through Jesus Christ, according to the pleasure ¹²  of his will – 1:6 to the praise of the glory of his grace ¹³  that he has freely bestowed on us in his dearly loved Son. ¹⁴  1:7 In him ¹⁵  we have redemption through his blood, ¹⁶  the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace 1:8 that he lavished on us in all wisdom and insight. 1:9 He did this when he revealed ¹⁷  to us the secret ¹⁸  of his will, according to his good pleasure that he set forth ¹⁹  in Christ, ²⁰  1:10 toward the administration of the fullness of the times, to head up ²¹  all things in Christ – the things in heaven ²²  and the things on earth. ²³  1:11 In Christ ²⁴  we too have been claimed as God’s own possession, ²⁵  since we were predestined according to the one purpose of him who accomplishes all things according to the counsel of his will 1:12 so that we, who were the first to set our hope ²⁶  on Christ, ²⁷  would be to the praise of his glory. 1:13 And when ²⁸  you heard the word of truth (the gospel of your salvation) – when you believed in Christ ²⁹  – you were marked with the seal ³⁰  of the promised Holy Spirit, ³¹  1:14 who is the down payment ³²  of our inheritance, until the redemption of God’s own possession, ³³  to the praise of his glory.