Chapter 3

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

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  (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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  that by revelation the mystery has been made known to me, (according as I have written before briefly,  

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  by which, in reading it, ye can understand my intelligence in the mystery of the Christ,)  

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  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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  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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  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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  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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  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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  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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  according to [the] purpose of the ages, which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord,  

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  in whom we have boldness and access in confidence by the faith of him.  

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  Wherefore I beseech [you] not to faint through my tribulations for you, which is your glory.  

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  For this reason I bow my knees to the Father [of our Lord Jesus Christ],  

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  of whom every family in [the] heavens and on earth is named,  

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  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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  that the Christ may dwell, through faith, in your hearts, being rooted and founded in love,  

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  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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  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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  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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  to him be glory in the assembly in Christ Jesus unto all generations of the age of ages. Amen).  

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