American Standard Version of 1901
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Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Spirit: as your fathers did, so do ye.
even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blemish before {Or, him: having in love foreordained us}him in love:
hereby we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit.
having foreordained us unto adoption as sons through Jesus Christ unto himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,
in whom also we were made a heritage, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his will;
to the end that we should be unto the praise of his glory, we who {Or, have}had before hoped in Christ:
which is an earnest of our inheritance, unto the redemption of God's own possession, unto the praise of his glory.
{[Chapter 4:1 in Hebrew]}For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall {Or, return to}bring back the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,
but this is that which hath been spoken through the prophet Joel:
in whom ye also, having heard the word of the truth, the {Or, good tidings. See marginal note on Matthew 4:23.}gospel of your salvation,— in whom, having also believed, ye were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise,