Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech, Ephesians

Produced by Martin Ward
Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech, Ephesians
Third Edition 1913
R. F. Weymouth
001:001 Paul, an Apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God: To God's people who are in Ephesus—believers in Christ Jesus.
001:002 May grace and peace be granted to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
001:003 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has crowned us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms in Christ;
001:004 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.
001:005 For He pre-destined us to be adopted by Himself as sons through Jesus Christ—such being His gracious will and pleasure—
001:006 to the praise of the splendour of His grace with which He has enriched us in the beloved One.
001:007 It is in Him, and through the shedding of His blood, that we have our deliverance—the forgiveness of our offences— so abundant was God's grace,
001:008 the grace which He, the possessor of all wisdom and understanding, lavished upon us,