Bible verse
He predestined us for adoption as His sons through Jesus Christ, according to the good pleasure of His will,
Ephesians 1:5 · BSB
The verses around it, from Ephesians 1.
1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, To the saints in Ephesus, the faithful in Christ Jesus:
2 Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms.
4 For He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless in His presence. In love
5 He predestined us for adoption as His sons through Jesus Christ, according to the good pleasure of His will,
6 to the praise of His glorious grace, which He has freely given us in the Beloved One.
7 In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace
8 that He lavished on us with all wisdom and understanding.
9 And He has made known to us the mystery of His will according to His good pleasure, which He purposed in Christ
KJV
Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,
ASV
having foreordained us unto adoption as sons through Jesus Christ unto himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,
ERV
having foreordained us unto adoption as sons through Jesus Christ unto himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,
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