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    "language": "en",
    "book": "ephesians",
    "chapter": 1
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    "bookSlug": "ephesians",
    "bookCode": "EPH",
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    "title": "",
    "translation": null,
    "segments": [],
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    "paragraphs": [{
        "n": 1,
        "refId": "EPH-1:1",
        "verseRef": "EPH.1.1",
        "text": "Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, to the saints that are at Ephesus, and the faithful in Christ Jesus:"
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "EPH-1:2",
        "verseRef": "EPH.1.2",
        "text": "Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ."
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "EPH-1:3",
        "verseRef": "EPH.1.3",
        "text": "Blessed [be] the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly [places] in Christ:"
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "EPH-1:4",
        "verseRef": "EPH.1.4",
        "text": "even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blemish before him in love:"
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "EPH-1:5",
        "verseRef": "EPH.1.5",
        "text": "having foreordained us unto adoption as sons through Jesus Christ unto himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,"
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "EPH-1:6",
        "verseRef": "EPH.1.6",
        "text": "to the praise of the glory of his grace, which he freely bestowed on us in the Beloved:"
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "EPH-1:7",
        "verseRef": "EPH.1.7",
        "text": "in whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,"
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "EPH-1:8",
        "verseRef": "EPH.1.8",
        "text": "which he made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence,"
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "EPH-1:9",
        "verseRef": "EPH.1.9",
        "text": "making known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him"
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "EPH-1:10",
        "verseRef": "EPH.1.10",
        "text": "unto a dispensation of the fulness of the times, to sum up all things in Christ, the things in the heavens, and the things upon the earth; in him, [I say,]"
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "EPH-1:11",
        "verseRef": "EPH.1.11",
        "text": "in whom also we were made a heritage, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his will;"
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "EPH-1:12",
        "verseRef": "EPH.1.12",
        "text": "to the end that we should be unto the praise of his glory, we who had before hoped in Christ:"
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "EPH-1:13",
        "verseRef": "EPH.1.13",
        "text": "in whom ye also, having heard the word of the truth, the gospel of your salvation,-- in whom, having also believed, ye were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise,"
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "EPH-1:14",
        "verseRef": "EPH.1.14",
        "text": "which is an earnest of our inheritance, unto the redemption of [God`s] own possession, unto the praise of his glory."
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "EPH-1:15",
        "verseRef": "EPH.1.15",
        "text": "For this cause I also, having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which is among you, and the love which [ye show] toward all the saints,"
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "EPH-1:16",
        "verseRef": "EPH.1.16",
        "text": "cease not to give thanks for you, making mention [of you] in my prayers;"
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "EPH-1:17",
        "verseRef": "EPH.1.17",
        "text": "that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him;"
      },{
        "n": 18,
        "refId": "EPH-1:18",
        "verseRef": "EPH.1.18",
        "text": "having the eyes of your heart enlightened, that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,"
      },{
        "n": 19,
        "refId": "EPH-1:19",
        "verseRef": "EPH.1.19",
        "text": "and what the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to that working of the strength of his might"
      },{
        "n": 20,
        "refId": "EPH-1:20",
        "verseRef": "EPH.1.20",
        "text": "which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and made him to sit at his right hand in the heavenly [places],"
      },{
        "n": 21,
        "refId": "EPH-1:21",
        "verseRef": "EPH.1.21",
        "text": "far above all rule, and authority, and power, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come:"
      },{
        "n": 22,
        "refId": "EPH-1:22",
        "verseRef": "EPH.1.22",
        "text": "and he put all things in subjection under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things to the church,"
      },{
        "n": 23,
        "refId": "EPH-1:23",
        "verseRef": "EPH.1.23",
        "text": "which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all."
      }
    ]
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