就如神从创立世界以前,在基督里拣选了我们,使我们在他面前成为圣洁,无有瑕疵。According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
又因爱我们,就按着自己意旨所喜悦的,豫定我们,藉着耶稣基督得儿子的名分,Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,
要照所安排的,在日期满足的时候,使天上地上一切所有的,都在基督里同归于一。That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him:
我们也在他里面得了基业,(得或作成)这原是那位随己意行作万事的,照着他旨意所豫定的。In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will: