Ephesians 3 · Clearspring

The Mystery of the Gospel

¹For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for you Gentiles,+ ²If that ordering of the grace of God has come to your knowledge, which was given to me for you,+ ³How by revelation the secret was made clear to me, as I said before in a short letter,+ ⁴By the reading of which you will be clear about my knowledge of the secret of Christ;+ ⁵Which in other generations was not given to the sons of men, but the revelation of it has now been made to his holy Apostles and prophets in the Spirit;+ ⁶Which is that the Gentiles have a part in the heritage, and in the same body, and in the same hope in Christ through the good news,+ ⁷Of which I was made a preacher, through that grace of God which was given to me in the measure of the working of his power.+ ⁸To me, who am less than the least of all the saints, was this grace given, so that I might make clear to the Gentiles the good news of the unending wealth of Christ:+ ⁹And make all men see what is the ordering of the secret which from the first has been kept in God who made all things;+ ¹⁰So that now to the rulers and the authorities in the heavens might be made clear through the church the wide-shining wisdom of God,+ ¹¹Which is seen in his eternal purpose in Christ Jesus our Lord:+ ¹²By whom we come near to God without fear through faith in him.+ ¹³For this reason it is my prayer that you may not become feeble because of my troubles for you, which are your glory.+

Paul’s Prayer for the Ephesians

¹⁴For this cause I go down on my knees before the Father,+ ¹⁵From whom every family in heaven and on earth is named,+ ¹⁶That in the wealth of his glory he would make you strong with power through his Spirit in your hearts;+ ¹⁷So that Christ may have his place in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and based in love,+ ¹⁸May have strength to see with all the saints how wide and long and high and deep it is,+ ¹⁹And to have knowledge of the love of Christ which is outside all knowledge, so that you may be made complete as God himself is complete.+ ²⁰Now to him who is able to do in full measure more than all our desires or thoughts, through the power which is working in us,+ ²¹To him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations for ever and ever. So be it.+

The Mystery of the Gospel

Paul’s Prayer for the Ephesians

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