^{3 Ref} Blessed `is' the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who did bless us in every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,

^{4 Ref} according as He did choose us in him before the foundation of the world, for our being holy and unblemished before Him, in love,

^{5 Ref} having foreordained us to the adoption of sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will,

^{6 Ref} to the praise of the glory of His grace, in which He did make us accepted in the beloved,