He did this by predestining us to adoption as his sons through Jesus Christ, according to the pleasure of his will –

Let nobody deceive you with empty words, for because of these things God’s wrath comes on the sons of disobedience.

until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God – a mature person, attaining to the measure of Christ’s full stature.

to the praise of the glory of his grace that he has freely bestowed on us in his dearly loved Son.

in which you formerly lived according to this world’s present path, according to the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the ruler of the spirit that is now energizing the sons of disobedience,

Now this secret was not disclosed to people in former generations as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit,

In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace