^{3 Ref} 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;

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

^{5 Ref} having predestined us for adoption as children through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his desire,

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