EFESOARREI 1

Agurra

1 Nik, Paulok, Jainkoak hala nahirik, Kristo Jesusen apostolu naizen honek, Efeson bizi zareten fededunoit, Kristo Jesusengan sinesten duzuenoi, idazten dizuet.t

2 Jainko gure Aitak eta Jesu Kristo Jaunak eman biezazkizuete grazia eta bakea.

KRISTOREN ETA ELIZAREN MISTERIOA (1,3—3,21)

Jainkoaren salbamen-asmoa

3 Goretsia izan bedi Jainkoa,
Jesu Kristo gure Jaunaren Aita,
zeruan, Kristoren bitartez,
Espirituaren ondasun orozt
bedeinkatu gaituena!t

4 Kristorengan aukeratu gintuen
mundua mundu izan baino lehen,
haren aurrean santu eta akats gabe
izan gaitezen maitasunezt.t

5 Bere onginahiak eraginda,
ordutik zuen erabakia
Jesu Kristoren bitartez
gu seme-alabatzat hartzea,t

6 bere Seme maitearengan
eskuzabal eman digun
dohaint zoragarria
berarentzat gorespen-kantu
bihur dadin.t

7 Semeak bere heriotzaz
askapenat eta bekatuen barkamena
lortu dizkigu,
Jainkoaren eskuzabaltasun
agorrezinaren erakusgarri;t

8 bere eskuzabaltasunaren dohainak
oparo isuri ditu gure gainera,
jakinduria eta ezaguera oroz
gu hornituz.

9 Bere asmo ezkutuat,
bere onginahiaz
erabakia zuen asmoa,
ezagutarazi digu:t

10 historia bere betetasunera
eramatea,
gauza guztiak,
nola zerukoak hala lurrekoak,
Kristo buru dela, batean bilduz.t

11-12 Honen bitartez
gara oinordeko gu ere,
lehendik Mesiasengan
itxaropen genuenokt,
gauza guztiak berak nahi bezala
egiten dituen Jainkoak
aurrez aukeratu baikaitu
bere asmoaren arabera,
bere aintzaren gorespen-kantu
izan gaitezen.t

13 Eta zuek eret egiaren mezua,
salbatzen zaituzten berri ona, entzun
eta Kristorengan sinetsi duzuenok,
aginduriko Espiritu Santuak
zigiluz bezala markatu zaituzte;t

14 Espiritua da hartuko dugun
ondarearen garantia,
harik eta Jainkoak
bere egin duen herria
askapen osora iritsi arte
eta haren aintzaren gorespen-kantu
izan gaitezen arte.t

Kristo gure Jaunaren nagusigoa

16 etengabe ari natzaio Jainkoari zuengatik eskerrak ematen, ene otoitzetan zuetaz oroituz.t
17 Jesu Kristo gure Jaunaren Jainkoak, aintza guztia dagokion Aitak, jakinduria eta goi-argia eman diezazkizuela, bera zer-nolakoa den sakonki ezagutzeko. 18 Argi ditzala zuen barruko begiakt, jakin dezazuen zer itxarotera deitu zaituzten, zein zoragarria den fededunentzat ondare gisa prestatua duen aintzat 19-20 eta zein handia den sinestedunen alde erabiltzen duen bere ahalmena. Indar ahaltsu hori Kristorengan erakutsi zuen Jainkoak, hura hildakoen artetik piztu eta zeruan bere eskuinaldean eserarazi zuenean.t 21 Munduko aginte, botere, indar eta nagusigot ororen gainetik eta, mundu honetan ez ezik, datorren munduan ere aipagarri den edozeinen gainetik ezarri zuen.t 22 Dena jarri du Jainkoak Kristoren oinazpian, eta berau egin du denen gainetik Elizaren buru.t 23 Eliza haren gorputza da, unibertsoa erabat betetzen duen Kristok erabat beteat.t

Ephesians 1

Salutation

1 From Paul,t an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, to the saints [in Ephesus],ss the faithfult in Christ Jesus.

2 Grace and peace to yout from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ!

Spiritual Blessings in Christ

3 Blesseds ist the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessedt us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms in Christ.4 Fort he chose us in Christt before the foundation of the world that we may be holy and unblemisheds in his sightt in love.t5 He did this by predestiningts us to adoption as hist sonsts through Jesus Christ, according to the pleasuret of his will –6 to the praise of the glory of his gracet that he has freely bestowed on us in his dearly loved Son.tss7 In himt we have redemption through his blood,s the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace8 that he lavished on us in all wisdom and insight.9 He did this when he revealedt to us the secrett of his will, according to his good pleasure that he set fortht in Christ,ts10 toward the administration of the fullness of the times, to head upt all things in Christ – the things in heavent and the things on earth.s11 In Christt we too have been claimed as God’s own possession,ts since we were predestined according to the one purpose of him who accomplishes all things according to the counsel of his will12 so that we, who were the first to set our hopet on Christ,t would be to the praise of his glory.13 And whent you heard the word of truth (the gospel of your salvation) – when you believed in Christt – you were marked with the sealt of the promised Holy Spirit,t

14 who is the down paymentts of our inheritance, until the redemption of God’s own possession,t to the praise of his glory.

Prayer for Wisdom and Revelation

15 For this reason,s because It have heardt of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your loves for all the saints,16 I do not cease to give thanks for you when I remember yout in my prayers.17 I pray thatt the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory,t may give you spiritual wisdom and revelationt in your growing knowledge of him,tsss18 – since the eyes of yourst heart have been enlightenedt – so that you may know what is the hope of his calling,tssss what is the wealth of his glorioust inheritance in the saints,19 and what is the incomparablet greatness of his power towardt us who believe, as displayed int the exercise of his immense strength.ts20 This powert he exercisedt in Christ when he raised himt from the dead and seated hims at his right hand in the heavenly realmss21 far above every rule and authority and power and dominion and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the one to come.22 And Godtputtall things under Christ’stfeet,s and he gave him to the church as head over all things.t

23 Now the church ist his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.ts