The opening chapter of Ephesians is Paul’s sweeping doxology - one of the most theologically dense passages in the New Testament, cataloguing every spiritual blessing God gives believers in Christ, from election before creation to the sealing of the Holy Spirit.
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Lyrics
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
Even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world That we would be holy and without defect before him in love Having predestined us for adoption as children Through Jesus Christ to himself according to the good pleasure of his desire To the praise of the glory of his grace By which he freely gave us favour in the Beloved
In him we have our redemption through his blood The forgiveness of our trespasses according to the riches of his grace Which he made to abound towards us in all wisdom and prudence Making known to us the mystery of his will According to his good pleasure which he purposed in him
To an administration of the fullness of the times To sum up all things in Christ The things in the heavens and the things on the earth In him we were also assigned an inheritance Having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who does all things
After the counsel of his will To the end that we should be to the praise of his glory We who had before hoped in Christ In him you also having heard the word of the truth The Good News of your salvation
In whom having also believed you were sealed With the promised Holy Spirit Who is a pledge of our inheritance To the redemption of God’s own possession To the praise of his glory
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Ephesians 1 sung by Psalm Selah. The whole Bible, one chapter at a time.