Ephesians 3

¹For this reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for the sake of you Gentiles...

²Surely you have heard about the stewardship of God’s grace that was given to me for you,

³that is, the mystery made known to me by revelation, as I have already written briefly.

⁴In reading this, then, you will be able to understand my insight into the mystery of Christ,

⁵which was not made known to men in other generations as it has now been revealed by the Spirit to God’s holy apostles and prophets.

⁶This mystery is that through the gospel the Gentiles are fellow heirs, fellow members of the body, and fellow partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus.

⁷I became a servant of this gospel by the gift of God’s grace, given me through the working of His power.

⁸Though I am less than the least of all the saints, this grace was given me: to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,

⁹and to illuminate for everyone the stewardship of this mystery, which for ages past was kept hidden in God, who created all things.

¹⁰His purpose was that now, through the church, the manifold wisdom of God should be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly realms,

¹¹according to the eternal purpose that He accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord.

¹²In Him and through faith in Him we may enter God’s presence with boldness and confidence.

¹³So I ask you not to be discouraged because of my sufferings for you, which are your glory.

¹⁴... for this reason I bow my knees before the Father,

¹⁵from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name.

¹⁶I ask that out of the riches of His glory He may strengthen you with power through His Spirit in your inner being,

¹⁷so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. Then you, being rooted and grounded in love,

¹⁸will have power, together with all the saints, to comprehend the length and width and height and depth

¹⁹of the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

²⁰Now to Him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work within us,

²¹to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen.

Ephesians 3

¹For this cause, I Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for you the nations,

²if, indeed, ye did hear of the dispensation of the grace of God that was given to me in regard to you,

³that by revelation He made known to me the secret, according as I wrote before in few words

⁴in regard to which ye are able, reading it , to understand my knowledge in the secret of the Christ,

⁵which in other generations was not made known to the sons of men, as it was now revealed to His holy apostles and prophets in the Spirit

⁶that the nations be fellow-heirs, and of the same body, and partakers of His promise in the Christ, through the good news,

⁷of which I became a ministrant, according to the gift of the grace of God that was given to me, according to the working of His power;

⁸to methe less than the least of all the saintswas given this grace, among the nations to proclaim good newsthe untraceable riches of the Christ,

⁹and to cause all to see what is the fellowship of the secret that hath been hid from the ages in God, who the all things did create by Jesus Christ,

¹⁰that there might be made known now to the principalities and the authorities in the heavenly places , through the assembly, the manifold wisdom of God,

¹¹according to a purpose of the ages, which He made in Christ Jesus our Lord,

¹²in whom we have the freedom and the access in confidence through the faith of him,

¹³wherefore, I ask you not to faint in my tribulations for you, which is your glory.

¹⁴For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,

¹⁵of whom the whole family in the heavens and on earth is named,

¹⁶that He may give to you, according to the riches of His glory, with might to be strengthened through His Spirit, in regard to the inner man,

¹⁷that the Christ may dwell through the faith in your hearts, in love having been rooted and founded,

¹⁸that ye may be in strength to comprehend, with all the saints, what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height,

¹⁹to know also the love of the Christ that is exceeding the knowledge, that ye may be filledto all the fulness of God;

²⁰and to Him who is able above all things to do exceeding abundantly what we ask or think, according to the power that is working in us,

²¹to Him is the glory in the assembly in Christ Jesus, to all the generations of the age of the ages. Amen.