^{3 Ref} Blessed `be' the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly `places' in Christ:

^{4 Ref} even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blemish before him in love:

^{5 Ref} having foreordained us unto adoption as sons through Jesus Christ unto himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,

^{6 Ref} to the praise of the glory of his grace, which he freely bestowed on us in the Beloved: