Chapter 3

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

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  If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward:  

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  How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery; (as I wrote afore in few words,  

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  Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ)  

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  Which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men, as it is now revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit;  

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  That the Gentiles should be fellowheirs, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel:  

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  Whereof I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God given unto me by the effectual working of his power.  

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  Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ;  

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  And to make all [men] see what [is] the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ:  

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  To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly [places] might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God,  

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  According to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord:  

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

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  Wherefore I desire that ye faint not at my tribulations for you, which is your glory.  

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  For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,  

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  Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named,  

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  That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man;  

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  That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,  

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  May be able to comprehend with all saints what [is] the breadth, and length, and depth, and height;  

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  And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.  

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  Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,  

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  Unto him [be] glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.  

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