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| 3:1 |
For this reason *I* Paul, prisoner of the Christ Jesus for you nations,
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| 3:2 |
(if indeed ye have heard of the administration of the grace of God which has been given to me towards you,
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| 3:3 |
that by revelation the mystery has been made known to me, (according as I have written before briefly,
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| 3:4 |
by which, in reading it, ye can understand my intelligence in the mystery of the Christ,)
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| 3:5 |
which in other generations has not been made known to the sons of men, as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets in [the power of the] Spirit,
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| 3:6 |
that [they who are of] the nations should be joint heirs, and a joint body, and joint partakers of [his] promise in Christ Jesus by the glad tidings;
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| 3:7 |
of which I am become minister according to the gift of the grace of God given to me, according to the working of his power.
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| 3:8 |
To me, less than the least of all saints, has this grace been given, to announce among the nations the glad tidings of the unsearchable riches of the Christ,
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| 3:9 |
and to enlighten all [with the knowledge of] what is the administration of the mystery hidden throughout the ages in God, who has created all things,
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| 3:10 |
in order that now to the principalities and authorities in the heavenlies might be made known through the assembly the all-various wisdom of God,
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| 3:11 |
according to [the] purpose of the ages, which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord,
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| 3:12 |
in whom we have boldness and access in confidence by the faith of him.
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| 3:13 |
Wherefore I beseech [you] not to faint through my tribulations for you, which is your glory.
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| 3:14 |
For this reason I bow my knees to the Father [of our Lord Jesus Christ],
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| 3:15 |
of whom every family in [the] heavens and on earth is named,
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| 3:16 |
in order that he may give you according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with power by his Spirit in the inner man;
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| 3:17 |
that the Christ may dwell, through faith, in your hearts, being rooted and founded in love,
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| 3:18 |
in order that ye may be fully able to apprehend with all the saints what [is] the breadth and length and depth and height;
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| 3:19 |
and to know the love of the Christ which surpasses knowledge; that ye may be filled [even] to all the fulness of God.
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| 3:20 |
But to him that is able to do far exceedingly above all which we ask or think, according to the power which works in us,
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| 3:21 |
to him be glory in the assembly in Christ Jesus unto all generations of the age of ages. Amen).
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