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Ephesians 1 repeatedly describes blessings believers have “in Christ,” including redemption, forgiveness, and an inheritance. It also says believers were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit as a guarantee. See Ephesians 1:3–14.
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,
7in whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,
8which he made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence,
9making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him
10to an administration of the fullness of the times, to sum up all things in Christ, the things in the heavens, and the things on the earth, in him;
11in whom also we were made a heritage, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who works all things after the counsel of his will;
12to the end that we should be to the praise of his glory, we who had before hoped in Christ:
13in whom you also, having heard the word of the truth, the gospel of your salvation, -- in whom, having also believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise,
14who is a pledge of our inheritance, to the redemption of God`s own possession, to the praise of his glory.