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