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Ephesians 1:3

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Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ;

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Ephesus was a major port city in Roman Asia Minor (modern western Turkey), where Paul’s letter addressed a Christian community living amid prominent pagan worship and imperial culture. Though Ephesians 1:3 speaks of believers’ blessings “in Christ” and “in the heavenly places,” its recipients in Ephesus needed this assurance of God’s sovereign grace in their earthly setting.

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Ephesians 1:3 mentions Ephesus.

Ephesus · Benh LIEU SONG

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