4 as he chose us to be in union with him* before the founding of the world, that we should be holy and unblemished+ before him in love.

21 Indeed, you who were once alienated and enemies because your minds were on the works that were wicked, 22 he has now reconciled by means of that one’s fleshly body through his death, in order to present you holy and unblemished and open to no accusation before him+—