我们主耶稣基督的父神是应当称颂的。他在基督里，曾经把天上各种属灵的福分赐给我们： 就如创立世界以前，他在基督里拣选了我们，使我们因着爱，在他面前成为圣洁，没有瑕疵。 他又按着自己旨意所喜悦的，预定我们藉着耶稣基督得儿子的名分， 好使他恩典的荣耀得着颂赞。这恩典是他在爱子里赐给我们的。
Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms in Christ. For he chose us in Christ before the foundation of the world that we may be holy and unblemished in his sight in love. He did this by predestining us to adoption as his sons through Jesus Christ, according to the pleasure of his will– to the praise of the glory of his grace that he has freely bestowed on us in his dearly loved Son.
以弗所书 Ephesians 1:3-6 NET