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Ephesians 1:3-6
3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord, Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ;
4even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without blemish before him in love;
5having predestined us for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his desire,
6to the praise of the glory of his grace, which he freely bestowed on us in the Beloved,
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