Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavens, as he chose us in him,  before the foundation of the world, to be holy and without blemish before him.  In love, he destined us for adoption to himself through Jesus Christ, in accord with the favor of his will, for the praise of the glory of his grace that he granted us in the beloved.

St. Paul’s Letter to the Ephesians, 1:3-6