God’s Rich Blessings
3 Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavens in Christ. 1:3 Eph 1:20; 2:6; 3:10; 6:124 For he chose us in him, before the foundation of the world, to be holy and blameless in love before him. 1:4 Or in his sight. In love, 1:4 Jd 245 He predestined us to be adopted as sons through Jesus Christ for himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, 6 to the praise of his glorious grace 1:6 Jn 1:14; Rm 5:2; 2Co 4:15 that he lavished on us in the Beloved One. 1:6 Mt 3:17; Jn 3:35; 10:17; Col 1:13