^{3 Ref} Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has given us every blessing of the Spirit in the heavens in Christ:

^{4 Ref} Even as he made selection of us in him from the first, so that we might be holy and free from all evil before him in love:

^{5 Ref} As we were designed before by him for the position of sons to himself, through Jesus Christ, in the good pleasure of his purpose,

^{6 Ref} To the praise of the glory of his grace, which he freely gave to us in the Loved One: