¹ For this reason, I Paul, the prisoner of the Christ Jesus on account of you Gentiles,

² if, indeed, you have heard of the stewardship of the grace of God, which was given to me for your benefit,

³ that by revelation was made known to me the mystery, (as I briefly wrote above,

⁴ so that, when you read, you can see my understanding in the mystery of the Christ,)

⁵ which, in other generations, was not made known to the sons of men, as it is now revealed to his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit;

⁶ that the Gentiles should be fellow-heirs, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise in the Christ, through the gospel,

⁷ of which I was made a minister according to the gift of the grace of God which was given to me, in proportion to the energy of his power:

⁸ to me, who am by far the least of all the saints, has this grace been given, that I might preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of the Christ,

⁹ and enlighten all men with respect to the plan of the mystery, which was concealed from the ages in God, who created all things;

¹⁰ to the end that the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known, through the church, to the principalities and authorities in the heavenly regions,

¹¹ according to the arrangement of the ages, which he established by Christ Jesus our Lord,

¹² in whom we have boldness and access with confidence, through our faith in him.

¹³ For which cause I beseech you not to grow faint on account of my afflictions for you, which are your glory.

¹⁴ For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,

¹⁵ from whom the whole family in heaven and on earth is named,

¹⁶ that he may grant to you, according to the riches of his glory, to be mightily strengthened by his Spirit in the inner man,

¹⁷ that Christ may dwell in your hearts through the faith;

¹⁸ that, being rooted and founded in love, you may be fully able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and depth and hight,

¹⁹ and to know the love of the Christ that passes our knowledge, that you may be filled with aft the fullness of God.

²⁰ Now to him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think according to his power which works in us,

²¹ to him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus, throughout all the generations of the age of ages. Amen.