In whom also we were taken as an inheritance, according to the purpose of him who energiseth all things according to the counsel of his will,

And, all the inhabitants of the earth, as nothing, are accounted, and, according to his own pleasure, dealeth he - with the army of the heavens, and the inhabitants of the earth, - and none there is who can smite upon his hand, or say to him, What hast thou done?

But, he, is one, and who can turn him? What his soul desired, he hath done.

Thou wilt say to me, then - Why longer findeth he fault? For, his purpose, who hath withstood?

For, unto Moses, he saith - I will have mercy upon whomsoever I can have mercy, and I will have compassion upon whomsoever I can have compassion.

Hence, then, - on whom he pleaseth, he hath mercy, and, whom he pleaseth, he doth harden.

marking us out beforehand unto sonship, through Jesus Christ, for himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,

For it is, God, who energiseth within you, both the desiring and the energising, in behalf of his good pleasure.

But, all these, energiseth the one and the same Spirit, distributing unto each one, peculiarly, even as it is disposed.

God, jointly witnessing also, both with signs and wonders and manifold mighty works, and with distributions of Holy Spirit, according to his own will?

And, this, is the boldness which we have towards him: that, if, anything, we ask, according to his will, He doth hearken unto us.