1 From Paul, who by God's will is an apostle of Christ Jesus—
To God's people in Ephesus, who are faithful in their life in union with Christ Jesus:
2 May God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ give you grace and peace.
Spiritual Blessings in Christ
3 Let us give thanks to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! For in our union with Christ he has blessed us by giving us every spiritual blessing in the heavenly world. 4 Even before the world was made, God had already chosen us to be his through our union with Christ, so that we would be holy and without fault before him.
Because of his love 5 God had already decided that through Jesus Christ he would make us his children—this was his pleasure and purpose. 6 Let us praise God for his glorious grace, for the free gift he gave us in his dear Son! 7 For by the blood of Christ we are set free, that is, our sins are forgiven. How great is the grace of God, 8 which he gave to us in such large measure!
In all his wisdom and insight 9 God did what he had purposed, and made known to us the secret plan he had already decided to complete by means of Christ. 10 This plan, which God will complete when the time is right, is to bring all creation together, everything in heaven and on earth, with Christ as head.
11 All things are done according to God's plan and decision; and God chose us to be his own people in union with Christ because of his own purpose, based on what he had decided from the very beginning. 12 Let us, then, who were the first to hope in Christ, praise God's glory!
13 And you also became God's people when you heard the true message, the Good News that brought you salvation. You believed in Christ, and God put his stamp of ownership on you by giving you the Holy Spirit he had promised. 14 The Spirit is the guarantee that we shall receive what God has promised his people, and this assures us that God will give complete freedom to those who are his. Let us praise his glory!
Paul's Prayer
15 For this reason, ever since I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all of God's people, 16 I have not stopped giving thanks to God for you. I remember you in my prayers 17 and ask the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, to give you the Spirit, who will make you wise and reveal God to you, so that you will know him. 18 I ask that your minds may be opened to see his light, so that you will know what is the hope to which he has called you, how rich are the wonderful blessings he promises his people, 19 and how very great is his power at work in us who believe. This power working in us is the same as the mighty strength 20 which he used when he raised Christ from death and seated him at his right side in the heavenly world. 21 Christ rules there above all heavenly rulers, authorities, powers, and lords; he has a title superior to all titles of authority in this world and in the next. 22 God put all things under Christ's feet and gave him to the church as supreme Lord over all things. 23 The church is Christ's body, the completion of him who himself completes all things everywhere.
1 Okuza ku Paulus, ngwa rira omuapostele wa Kristus Jesus otja kombango ya Ndjambi.
Matu tjanga orutuu ndwi kotjiwaṋa tja Ndjambi kOefese tji tja kambura mu Kristus Jesus.
2 Ndjambi Tate na Muhona Jesus Kristus nge mu pe otjari nohange.
Ondangero ku Ndjambi kotjari tje
3 Ndjambi, Hiya Muhona wetu Jesus Kristus, nga hivirikwe! Eye we tu sera ondaya mu Kristus mokutupa ozondaya azehe zOmbepo zomeyuru. 4 Ouye ngunda au hiya utwa, Ndjambi we tu toororera okurira ove mu Kristus kokutja tu rire ovayapuke novehinandjo komurungu we.
Nu morusuvero rwe 5 Ndjambi wa tyere rukuru okutuisa po ovanatje ve mu Jesus Kristus punga ape tjata kombango ye. 6 Opu tu sokuhivirika Ndjambi motjimbe tjotjiyandjewa tje otjinene tje tu pa otja kotjari tje mOmuna we omusuverwa. 7 Orondu mombinḓu ya Kristus eṱe omu twa kuturwa nu omu twa isirwa ourunde wetu otja kouingi wotjari tja Ndjambi 8 Eye tje tu pa mounongo auhe we na mondjiviro ye aihe.
9 Eye we tu tjivisa oviundikwa vyombango ye mbya tyere rukuru. 10 Nu moruveze orusemba Ndjambi wa vangere okuyenenisa ondyero ndji mu Kristus. Nondando ye ya ri ingwi okuworonganisa oviutwa avihe meyuru na kombanda yehi mu Kristus ngu ri otjiuru.
11 Ndjambi oviṋa avihe u vi tjita otja kombango nondyero ye, nu eye wetu toorora kutja tu rire ove moruwano na Kristus otja kondyero ye okuza kombutiro. 12 Neṱe mbu twa tenga po okukara nomaundjiro wetu mu Kristus opu twa sokuhivirika ounene wa Ndjambi!
13 Neṋe wina mwa rira otjiwaṋa tja Ndjambi, indu tji mwa zuva ombuze youatjiri, indji Ombuze Ombwa ndje mu pa ombwiro yomuinyo. Eṋe mwa kambura mu Kristus, nu Ndjambi wa twako otjihako tjouini we ku eṋe mokumupa Ombepo Ondjapuke ndja kwizikire, 14 Eye ngu ri otjiyambo tjokutja eṱe matu pewa imbi Ndjambi mbya kwizikira otjiwaṋa tje. Nu ihi matji raisa kutja Ndjambi, tjiri, u nombango okuyandja onguturiro aihe okuura ku imba mbe ri ove. Ngatu tange ounene we!
Ongumbiro ya Paulus
15 Okuza indu tji mba zuvire ongamburiro yeṋu mu Muhona Jesus, norusuvero rweṋu kotjiwaṋa atjihe tja Ndjambi, opu me zu 16 okuhinakuisa okumutjera okuhepa ku Ndjambi. Ami aruhe mbi mu zemburuka mozongumbiro zandje. 17 Ami mbi kumba ku Ndjambi wa Muhona wetu Jesus Kristus, Ihe yondjozikiro aihe, kutja e mu pe Ombepo Ondjapuke, eye me mu nongaparisa nokumuvandururira Ndjambi, kokutja eṋe mu mu tjiwe tjiri. 18 Mbi kumba kutja eye a paturure omeho weṋu mu mune ondjerera ye, kokutja mu tjiwe kutja omaundjiro nge mu isanena owo otjikeṋa, nokutja ouingi wozondaya ozohimise nḓa kwizikira otjiwaṋa tje, u ṱa pi, 19 nokutja omasa we nge ungura mu eṱe ovakambure omanene tjinene pu pe ṱeki pi. Omasa nge ungura mu eṱe nga onge ri tjingewo nga omanene 20 Eye nga pendura na wo Kristus movakoke nu nge mu haamisa na wo kokunene kwe meyuru. 21 Kristus u honapara kombanda yomauhonapare, nomauvara, nomasa, nomauhona, aehe. Neye u honapara kombanda yomana aehe nangarire mouye mbwi nu nangarire mouye mbu mauya. 22 Ndjambi wa wisa avihe kehi yozombaze za Kristus. Nungwari eye, ngu ri oMuhona kombanda yaavihe, Ndjambi we mu zika okurira otjiuru tjombongo. 23 Ombongo oyo orutu rwa Kristus, omeurisiro waingwi eye omuini ngu urisa avihe mu avihe.
