as ye have heard the dispensation of the grace of God, which was given me to preach unto you:

which in other generations was not made known to men, as it is now revealed to his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit; that the Gentiles should be co-heirs,

of which I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God conferred on me by the effectual operation of his power.

On me, who am less than the least of all saints, was this grace bestowed, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,

which according to your former conversation was corrupted with deceitful lusts,

for we are members of his body, as if taken out of his flesh, and of his bones, as Eve was out of Adam's.