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| 3:1 |
For this cause, I Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for you the nations,
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| 3:2 |
if, indeed, ye did hear of the dispensation of the grace of God that was given to me in regard to you,
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| 3:3 |
that by revelation He made known to me the secret, according as I wrote before in few [words] --
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| 3:4 |
in regard to which ye are able, reading [it], to understand my knowledge in the secret of the Christ,
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| 3:5 |
which 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 --
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| 3:6 |
that the nations be fellow-heirs, and of the same body, and partakers of His promise in the Christ, through the good news,
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| 3:7 |
of 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;
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| 3:8 |
to me -- the less than the least of all the saints -- was given this grace, among the nations to proclaim good news -- the untraceable riches of the Christ,
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| 3:9 |
and 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,
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| 3:10 |
that there might be made known now to the principalities and the authorities in the heavenly [places], through the assembly, the manifold wisdom of God,
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| 3:11 |
according to a purpose of the ages, which He made in Christ Jesus our Lord,
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| 3:12 |
in whom we have the freedom and the access in confidence through the faith of him,
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| 3:13 |
wherefore, I ask [you] not to faint in my tribulations for you, which is your glory.
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| 3:14 |
For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
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| 3:15 |
of whom the whole family in the heavens and on earth is named,
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| 3:16 |
that 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,
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| 3:17 |
that the Christ may dwell through the faith in your hearts, in love having been rooted and founded,
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| 3:18 |
that ye may be in strength to comprehend, with all the saints, what [is] the breadth, and length, and depth, and height,
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| 3:19 |
to know also the love of the Christ that is exceeding the knowledge, that ye may be filled -- to all the fulness of God;
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| 3:20 |
and 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,
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| 3:21 |
to Him [is] the glory in the assembly in Christ Jesus, to all the generations of the age of the ages. Amen.
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