Ephesians 3:2

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Summary

Ephesians 3:2

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

Ye

The dispensation

Bible References

Ye

assuming that you have heard about him and were taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus,

For you have heard of my former life in Judaism, how I persecuted the church of God violently and tried to destroy it.

since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love that you have for all the saints,

for which I was appointed a preacher and apostle and teacher,

The dispensation

To me, though I am the very least of all the saints, this grace was given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,

But grace was given to each one of us according to the measure of Christ's gift.

But the Lord said to him, "Go, for he is a chosen instrument of mine to carry my name before the Gentiles and kings and the children of Israel.

While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, "Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them."

And he said to me, 'Go, for I will send you far away to the Gentiles.'"

delivering you from your people and from the Gentiles--to whom I am sending you

through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of his name among all the nations,

Now I am speaking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch then as I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry

For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned.

But on some points I have written to you very boldly by way of reminder, because of the grace given me by God

This is how one should regard us, as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God.

For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward, but if not of my own will, I am still entrusted with a stewardship.

But when he who had set me apart before I was born, and who called me by his grace,

(for he who worked through Peter for his apostolic ministry to the circumcised worked also through me for mine to the Gentiles),

of which I became a minister according to the stewardship from God that was given to me for you, to make the word of God fully known,

in accordance with the gospel of the glory of the blessed God with which I have been entrusted.

For this I was appointed a preacher and an apostle (I am telling the truth, I am not lying), a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.

for which I was appointed a preacher and apostle and teacher,