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

if indeed ye have heard him, and been taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus:

For you have heard of my life formerly in Judaism, that I was persecuting the church of God exceedingly, and destroying it:

having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and the divine love which you have toward all the saints.

unto which I have been placed a herald, and an apostle, and teacher:

The dispensation

And to each one of you grace is given according to the measure of the gift of Christ.

And the Lord said to him, Go: because he is a vessel of election to me, to bear my name both before the Gentiles, and kings, and sons of Israel:

And they ministering to the Lord, and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, Now separate unto me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.

And He said to me, Go: because I will send thee far away to the Gentiles.

delivering thee from the people, and from the Gentiles, unto whom now I send thee,

through whom we received grace and apostleship, unto obedience of faith among all the Gentiles, in behalf of his name:

But I speak to you Gentiles. Inasmuch then as I am an apostle of the Gentiles, I glorify my ministry:

For I speak, through the grace which has been given unto me, for every one who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, as God has imparted to each one the measure of faith.

But I have written unto you more boldly in part, as reminding you, on account of the grace which has been given unto me from God,

So let a man consider us, as ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.

For if I do this willingly, I have a reward: but if unwillingly, I have been intrusted with a dispensation.

When the one having separated me, from the womb of my mother, and called me through his grace, was pleased

for the one having wrought with Peter unto the apostleship of the circumcision also wrought with me unto the Gentiles:

whose minister I became, according to the economy of God which was given to me unto you, to fulfill the word of God,

according to the gospel of the glory of the blessed God, with which I am intrusted.

in which I have been placed a herald and an apostle I speak the truth, I lie not, a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and in truth.

unto which I have been placed a herald, and an apostle, and teacher: