Ephesians 1:4
“According as he hath chosen vs in him, before the foundation of the world, that wee should bee holy, and without blame before him in loue:”
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Ephesians 1:4 Context
2Grace be to you, and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Iesus Christ. 3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Iesus Christ, who hath blessed vs with all spirituall blessings in heauenly places in Christ: 4According as he hath chosen vs in him, before the foundation of the world, that wee should bee holy, and without blame before him in loue: 5Hauing predestinated vs vnto the adoption of children by Iesus Christ to himselfe, according to the good pleasure of his will: 6To the praise of the glorie of his grace, wherein he hath made vs accepted in the beloued:
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Other Translations for Ephesians 1:4
According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
- King James Version
just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before Him. In love
- New American Standard Version (1995)
even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blemish before him in love:
- American Standard Version (1901)
Even as he made selection of us in him from the first, so that we might be holy and free from all evil before him in love:
- Basic English Bible
according as he has chosen us in him before [the] world's foundation, that we should be holy and blameless before him in love;
- Darby Bible
According as he hath chosen us in him, before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
- Webster's Bible
even as, in His love, He chose us as His own in Christ before the creation of the world, that we might be holy and without blemish in His presence.
- Weymouth Bible
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;
- World English Bible
as he hath chosun vs in hym silf bifor the makyng of the world, that we weren hooli, and with out wem in his siyt, in charite.
- Wycliffe Bible
according as He did choose us in him before the foundation of the world, for our being holy and unblemished before Him, in love,
- Youngs Literal Bible
Wesley's Notes for Ephesians 1:4
1:4 As he hath chosen us - Both Jews and gentiles, whom he foreknew as believing in Christ, #1Pet 1:2|.
People's Bible Notes for Ephesians 1:4
Eph 1:4 According as. "Even as", in the Revised Version. Chosen us in him before the foundation of the world. This does not affirm that God chose some individuals and rejected others, but that before the world was, before there was Jew or Gentile, God chose to have a people for himself, the whole church of Christ, a covenant people confined to no one earthly race. That we should be holy. God chose them that they might be holy. Holiness is the proof that a church is a chosen church.