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

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if indeed you have listened to him, and in him been taught the truth as it is in Jesus.

For you have heard of my former conduct in Judaism, how furiously I used to persecute the church of God, and how I kept seeking to root it out;

(since I heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and your love to all the saints)

Of the gospel I was appointed a herald, apostle, and teacher; and that is the reason I am now undergoing these sufferings.

The dispensation

To me, who am less than the least of all saints, has this grace been given, that I should proclaim among the Gentiles the gospel of the unsearchable riches of Christ;

And to each one of us was grace given according to the measure of the munificence of Christ.

"Go," answered the Lord, "this man is chosen instrument of mine to bear my name before the nations and their kings, and before the Children of Israel also;

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

"'Depart,' he said to me, 'for I will send you forth, far hence, to the Gentiles.'"

"'I will deliver you from the Jewish people, and from the Gentiles to whom I am sending you to open their eyes

It is through him, even Jesus Christ our Lord, that I received grace and apostleship to promote obedience to the faith among all the Gentiles, for his name's sake;

For to you who are Gentiles I say that since I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I glorify my ministry,

For, through the grace that was given to me, I tell every man among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but so to think, as to think soberly, according to the measure of faith which God has given him.

Still I have written unto you the more boldly, in part, by way of reminding you, because of that gift of grace which God bestowed upon me, in making me a priest of Jesus Christ unto the Gentiles.

Let any man look upon us as servants of Christ, and stewards of the secret truths of God.

For if I do this of my own accord, I have my pay; but if unwilling, I have at least discharged my stewardship.

But when God who had set me apart from my very birth,

(for he who has equipped Peter for the apostleship to the circumcised, equipped me also for the apostleship to the Gentiles),

It is of this I was made a minister, according to the stewardship entrusted to me by God for you, fully to declare God's message;

as laid down in the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which has been entrusted to me.

It was for this testimony that I myself was appointed a herald and apostle (I am telling the truth, I am not lying), to be a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.

Of the gospel I was appointed a herald, apostle, and teacher; and that is the reason I am now undergoing these sufferings.