Ephesians

问候

1奉 神旨意，作基督耶稣使徒的保罗，写信给在以弗所的圣徒，就是在基督耶稣里有忠心的人。

2愿恩惠、平安从 神我们的父和主耶稣基督归与你们！

基督里的属灵福气

3愿颂赞归与我们主耶稣基督的父 神！他在基督里曾赐给我们天上各样属灵的福气：

4就如 神从创立世界以前，在基督里拣选了我们，使我们在他面前成为圣洁，无有瑕疵；

5又因爱我们，就按着自己的意旨所喜悦的，预定我们借着耶稣基督得儿子的名分，

6使他荣耀的恩典得着称赞；这恩典是他在爱子里所赐给我们的。

7我们借这爱子的血得蒙救赎，过犯得以赦免，乃是照他丰富的恩典。

8这恩典是 神用诸般智慧聪明，充充足足赏给我们的；

9都是照他自己所预定的美意，叫我们知道他旨意的奥秘，

10要照所安排的，在日期满足的时候，使天上、地上、一切所有的都在基督里面同归于一。

11我们也在他里面得了基业；这原是那位随己意行、做万事的，照着他旨意所预定的，

12叫他的荣耀从我们这首先在基督里有盼望的人可以得着称赞。

13你们既听见真理的道，就是那叫你们得救的福音，也信了基督，既然信他，就受了所应许的圣灵为印记。

14这圣灵是我们得基业的凭据，直等到 神之民被赎，使他的荣耀得着称赞。

保罗的祷告

15因此，我既听见你们信从主耶稣，亲爱众圣徒，

16就为你们不住地感谢 神。祷告的时候，常提到你们，

17求我们主耶稣基督的 神，荣耀的父，将那赐人智慧和启示的灵赏给你们，使你们真知道他，

18并且照明你们心中的眼睛，使你们知道他的恩召有何等指望，他在圣徒中得的基业有何等丰盛的荣耀；

19并知道他向我们这信的人所显的能力是何等浩大，

20就是照他在基督身上所运行的大能大力，使他从死里复活，叫他在天上坐在自己的右边，

21远超过一切执政的、掌权的、有能的、主治的，和一切有名的；不但是今世的，连来世的也都超过了。

22又将万有服在他的脚下，使他为教会作万有之首。

23教会是他的身体，是那充满万有者所充满的。

Paul’s Greeting to the Ephesians

1Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, To the saints in Ephesus,the faithful in Christ Jesus:

2Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Spiritual Blessings

3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms.

4For He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless in His presence. In love

5He predestined us for adoption as His sons through Jesus Christ, according to the good pleasure of His will,

6to the praise of His glorious grace, which He has freely given us in the Beloved One.

7In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace

8that He lavished on us with all wisdom and understanding.

9And He has made known to us the mystery of His will according to His good pleasure, which He purposed in Christ

10as a plan for the fullness of time, to bring all things in heaven and on earth together in Christ.

11In Him we were also chosen as God’s own, having been predestined according to the plan of Him who works out everything by the counsel of His will,

12in order that we, who were the first to hope in Christ, would be for the praise of His glory.

13And in Him, having heard and believed the word of truth—the gospel of your salvation—you were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,

14who is the pledge of our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God’s possession, to the praise of His glory.

Spiritual Wisdom

15For this reason, ever since I heard about your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints,

16I have not stopped giving thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers,

17that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in your knowledge of Him.

18I ask that the eyes of your heartmay be enlightened, so that you may know the hope of His calling, the riches of His glorious inheritance in the saints,

19and the surpassing greatness of His power to us who believe. These are in accordance with the working of His mighty strength,

20which He exerted in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly realms,

21far above all rule and authority, power and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in the present age but also in the one to come.

22And God put everything under His feet and made Him head over everything for the church,

23which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all.