Before the world began, God chose us to be holy

Praised be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
who has bestowed on us in Christ 
    every spiritual blessing in the heavens.

God chose us in him before the world began
    to be holy and blameless in his sight.
  
He predestined us to be his adopted sons through Jesus Christ,
such was his will and pleasure, 
that all might praise the glorious favor 
    he has bestowed on us in his beloved.
   
In him and through his blood, we have been redeemed, 
and our sins forgiven, 
so immeasurably generous is God’s favor to us.
  
God has given us the wisdom to understand fully the mystery,
the plan he was pleased to decree in Christ.
A plan to be carried out in Christ, in the fullness of time,
to bring all things into one in him, 
in the heavens and on earth.
Ephesians 1:3-10
  

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