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:

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The dispensation

Bible References

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If so be that you have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus:

For you have heard of my manner of life in time past in the Jews' religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and wasted it:

Since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which you have to all the saints,

For which I am appointed a preacher, and an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.

The dispensation

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;

But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ.

But the Lord said unto him, Go your way: for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel:

As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Spirit said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.

And he said unto me, Depart: for I will send you far from here unto the Gentiles.

Delivering you from the people, and from the Gentiles, unto whom now I send you,

By whom we have received grace and apostleship, for obedience to the faith among all nations, for his name:

For I speak to you Gentiles, since I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify my office:

For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God has dealt to every man the measure of faith.

Nevertheless, brethren, I have written the more boldly unto you in some way, as reminding you, because of the grace that is given to me of God,

Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.

For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a stewardship of the gospel is committed unto me.

But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace,

(For he that worked effectually in Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision, the same was mighty in me toward the Gentiles:)

Of which I am made a minister, according to the commission of God which is given to me for you, to fulfill the word of God;

According to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.

To this I am ordained a preacher, and an apostle, (I speak the truth in Christ, and lie not;) a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.

For which I am appointed a preacher, and an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.