The. holie. Bible. conteynyng the olde Testament and the newe.

¶The first Chapter.

After his salutation, 4 he sheweth that the chiefe cause of their saluation standeth in the free election of God through Christe, 16 he declareth his good wyll towarde them, geuyng thankes, & praying God for their fayth. 21 The maiestie of Christe.

[unspec A] 1 PAul an apostle of Iesus Christe by the wyll of God: To the saintes which are at Ephesus, and to the faythfull in Christe Iesus:

2 * 1.1Grace be with you, and peace, from God our father, & from the Lorde Iesus Christe.

3 * 1.2Blessed be God, the father of our Lorde Iesus Christe, whiche hath bles∣sed vs in all spirituall blessyng, in hea∣uenly thynges by Christe:

4 According as he had chosen vs in hym before the foundation of the world, that we shoulde be holy, and without blame before hym, through loue.

5 Who hath predestinate vs into the ad∣option

of a 1.3 childrē, by Iesus Christ vn∣to hym selfe, according to the good plea∣sure of his wyll:

6 To the prayse of the glorie of his grace, wherein he hath made vs accepted in the beloued.

[unspec B] 7 * 1.4In whom we haue redemption through his blood, the forgeuenesse of sinnes, accordyng to the rychesse of his grace,

8 Wherein he hath abounded towarde vs in all wysedome and prudence.

9 And hath opened vnto vs the misterie of his wyll, accordyng to his good plea∣sure which he had purposed in himselfe.

10 That in the dispensation of * 1.5the ful∣nesse of the tymes, he myght gather to∣gether in one all thinges in Christe, both which are in heauen, and which are in earth, in hym.

11 In whom also we are chosen, beyng predestinate accordyng to the purpose of hym who worketh all thynges after the councell of his owne wyll:

[unspec C] 12 That we shoulde be vnto the prayse of his glorie, whiche before beleued in Christe.

13 In whom also ye, after that ye heard the worde of trueth, the Gospell of your saluation, wherin also after that ye be∣leued, were * 1.6 sealed with the holy spirite of promyse,

14 Whiche is the earnest of our inheri∣taunce, vnto y^e (b) 1.7 redemption of the pur∣chased possession, vnto the prayse of his glorie.

15 Wherfore I also after that I hearde of the fayth which ye haue in the Lorde Iesus, and loue vnto all the saintes,

16 Ceasse not to geue thankes for you, makyng mention of you in my prayers:

17 That the God of our Lorde Iesus Christe, the father of glorie, may geue vnto you the spirite of wisdome and re∣uelation, in the knowledge of hym:

18 The eyes of your myndes beyng ligh∣tened, [unspec D] that ye maye knowe what the * 1.8hope is of his callyng, and what the ri∣chesse of the glorie of his inheritaunce [is] in the saintes:

19 And what is the exceedyng greatnesse of his power to vswarde, which beleue, accordyng to the workyng of his mygh∣tie power,

20 Which he wrought in Christe when he raysed hym from the dead, * 1.9and set him on his ryght hande in heauenly [places]

21 Farre aboue * 1.10 all rule, and power, and myght, and dominion, and euery name that is named, not in this worlde only, but also in the worlde to come.

22 And * 1.11 hath put all thynges vnder his feete, and gaue him [to be] the head ouer all thynges to the Churche,

23 Which is his body, the fulnesse of him that fylleth all in all.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Rom. i. a. i. Cor. i. a.
• * 1.2

  i. Pet. i. a. Galath. i. a.
• a 1.3

  Where as we were not ••e naturall chyldren▪ he receaued vs by grace, and made vs his chyldren.
• * 1.4

  Coloss. i. b.
• * 1.5

  Galath. iiii. a
• * 1.6

  Rom. viii. c. ii. Cor. i. d.
• (b) 1.7

  Though we be redee∣med from the bondage of sin by the death of Christe, Rom. 6. yet we hope for this seconde redemption, which shalbe whē we shall possesse our in¦heritaunce in the heauens, whereof we haue the holy ghoste for a gage, as ca. 4.
• * 1.8

  Rom. xv. c.
• * 1.9

  Psal. cx. a.
• * 1.10

  Danie. vii. d
• * 1.11

  Psal. viii b. Hebr. ii. d. i. Cor. xv. d. Ephe. v. e. Coloss. i. e.