Chapter 3

  For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for you Gentiles,  

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  If that ordering of the grace of God has come to your knowledge, which was given to me for you,  

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  How by revelation the secret was made clear to me, as I said before in a short letter,  

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  By the reading of which you will be clear about my knowledge of the secret of Christ;  

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  Which 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;  

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  Which 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,  

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  Of 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.  

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  To 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:  

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  And make all men see what is the ordering of the secret which from the first has been kept in God who made all things;  

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  So that now to the rulers and the authorities in the heavens might be made clear through the church the wide-shining wisdom of God,  

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  Which is seen in his eternal purpose in Christ Jesus our Lord:  

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  By whom we come near to God without fear through faith in him.  

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  For this reason it is my prayer that you may not become feeble because of my troubles for you, which are your glory.  

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  For this cause I go down on my knees before the Father,  

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  From whom every family in heaven and on earth is named,  

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  That in the wealth of his glory he would make you strong with power through his Spirit in your hearts;  

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  So that Christ may have his place in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and based in love,  

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  May have strength to see with all the saints how wide and long and high and deep it is,  

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  And 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.  

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  Now 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,  

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  To him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations for ever and ever. So be it.  

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