Ephesians 1:1-12

Coverdale(i) 1 Paul an Apostle of Iesus Christ by the will of God. To ye sayntes which are Ephesus, & to the that beleue on Iesus Christ. 2 Grace be with you and peace from God oure father, & fro the LORDE Iesus Christ. 3 Blessed be God the father of oure LORDE Iesus Christ, which hath blessed vs wt all maner of spirituall blessynge in heauenly thynges by Christ 4 acordinge as he had chosen vs by him, or euer the foundacion of the worlde was layed, that we shulde be holy and without blame before him in loue, 5 & ordeyned vs before, to receaue vs as children thorow Iesus Christ, acordinge to the pleasure of his will, 6 vnto the prayse of the glory of his grace, wherby he hath made vs accepted in the Beloued, 7 in whom we haue redempcion thorow his bloude (namely) the forgeuenes of synnes, acordynge to ye riches of his grace, 8 which he hath shed vpon vs abundauntly in all wyssdome and prudece: 9 and hath opened vnto vs the mystery of his wil acordinge to his pleasure, which he had purposed in himselfe, 10 yt it shulde be preached wha the tyme was full come, that all thinges shulde be gathered together by Christ, both the thinges which are in heauen, and also the thinges that are vpon earth, 11 euen by him, by whom also we are come to the inheritaunce we that were therto predestinate before, acordinge to ye purpose of him, which worketh all thinges after ye councell of his owne wyll, 12 that we mighte be to the prayse of his glory, euen we that before beleued on Christ,