| 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 [words] -- |
| 4 | in regard to which ye are able, reading [it], 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 [is] 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 [places], 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 [you] 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 [is] 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 [is] the glory in the assembly in Christ Jesus, to all the generations of the age of the ages. Amen. |