MODERN LITERAL VERSION

1:1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, to the holy-ones who are in Ephesus and the faithful in Christ Jesus:
1:2 grace to you* and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

1:3 The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ is gracious*, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,
1:4 just-as he chose us in him before the conception of the world, that we should be holy and unblemished in the sight of him in love*.
1:5 Having predetermined us to the sonship through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the delight of his will,
1:6 to the praise of the glory of his grace, in which he has favored us in the beloved,
1:7 in whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses according to the riches of his grace.
1:8 The grace which he made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence,
1:9 making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his delight which he purposed in him,
1:10 to a stewardship of the fullness of the times, to sum up all things in Christ, the things in the heavens and the things upon the earth; in him.
1:11 In whom, we were also made an inheritance, having been predetermined according to the purpose of him who is working all things after the counsel of his will.
1:12 *That* we should be holy to the praise of his glory, we who had hoped before in Christ,
1:13 in whom you* also having heard the word of the truth, the good-news of your* salvation, in whom, having also believed, you* were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise,
1:14 which is a down-payment of our inheritance, to the redemption of God's ownership, to the praise of his glory.

1:15 Because of this, I, also, having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which is in you* and the love* which you * have toward all the holy-ones,
1:16 do not cease giving-thanks on your* behalf, making* mention of you* in my prayers;
1:17 that* the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you* a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the full knowledge of him.
1:18 The eyes of your* heart are being enlightened, *that* you* may know what is the hope of his calling and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance among the holy-ones,
1:19 And what is the surpassing greatness is of his power toward us who believe, according to the working of the dominion of his power,
1:20 which he worked in Christ, when he raised him up from the dead and seated him by his right hand in the heavenly places,
1:21 up above all rule and authority and power and lordship and every name that is named, not only in this age, but also in the future age.
1:22 And he subjected all things under his feet and gave him to be head over all things to the {F} congregation*,
1:23 which is his body, the fullness of him the one who fills all in all.
{Footnotes: Eph 1:22 Or: church/the one true church, Eph 4:1-6; discussed more in the Appendix.}