Spiritual Blessings in Christ

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

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For He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless in His presence. In love

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He predestined us for adoption as His sons through Jesus Christ, according to the good pleasure of His will,

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to the praise of His glorious grace, which He has freely given us in the Beloved One.

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In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace

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that He lavished on us with all wisdom and understanding.

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And He has made known to us the mystery of His will according to His good pleasure, which He purposed in Christ

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as a plan for the fullness of time, to bring all things in heaven and on earth together in Christ.

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In Him we were also chosen as God’s own, having been predestined according to the plan of Him who works out everything by the counsel of His will,

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in order that we, who were the first to hope in Christ, would be for the praise of His glory.

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And in Him, having heard and believed the word of truth—the gospel of your salvation—you were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,

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who is the pledge of our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God’s possession, to the praise of His glory.