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Ephesians 1:4

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even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without blemish before him in love;

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Ephesus was a major port city in Roman Asia Minor (modern western Turkey), home to a prominent Christian congregation addressed by Paul. Though verse 4 emphasizes God’s eternal choice of believers in Christ before creation, its Ephesian audience shows this saving purpose applied within a real, diverse first-century church.

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Ephesians 1:4 mentions Ephesus.

Ephesus · Benh LIEU SONG

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