1 F or this cause, I Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for you the nations,

2 i f, indeed, ye did hear of the dispensation of the grace of God that was given to me in regard to you,

3 t hat by revelation He made known to me the secret, according as I wrote before in few --

4 i n regard to which ye are able, reading, to understand my knowledge in the secret of the Christ,

5 w hich 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 t hat the nations be fellow-heirs, and of the same body, and partakers of His promise in the Christ, through the good news,

7 o f 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 t o 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 a nd to cause all to see what the fellowship of the secret that hath been hid from the ages in God, who the all things did create by Jesus Christ,

10 t hat there might be made known now to the principalities and the authorities in the heavenly, through the assembly, the manifold wisdom of God,

11 a ccording to a purpose of the ages, which He made in Christ Jesus our Lord,

12 i n whom we have the freedom and the access in confidence through the faith of him,

13 w herefore, I ask not to faint in my tribulations for you, which is your glory.

14 F or this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,

15 o f whom the whole family in the heavens and on earth is named,

16 t hat 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 t hat the Christ may dwell through the faith in your hearts, in love having been rooted and founded,

18 t hat ye may be in strength to comprehend, with all the saints, what the breadth, and length, and depth, and height,

19 t o know also the love of the Christ that is exceeding the knowledge, that ye may be filled -- to all the fulness of God;

20 a nd 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 t o Him the glory in the assembly in Christ Jesus, to all the generations of the age of the ages. Amen.