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

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Ye

(for it is Christ whom you have been taught, it is in Christ that you have been instructed ??the real Christ who is in Jesus);

You know the story of my past career in Judaism; you know how furiously I persecuted the church of God and harried it,

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

Of that gospel I have been appointed a herald and an apostle and a teacher,

The dispensation

less than the least of all saints as I am, this grace was vouchsafed me, that I should bring the Gentiles the gospel of the fathomless wealth of Christ

But each one of us is granted his own grace, as determined by the full measure of Christ's gift.

But the Lord said to him, "Go; I have chosen him to be the means of bringing my Name before the Gentiles and their kings as well as before the sons of Israel.

As they were worshipping the Lord and fasting, the holy Spirit said, "Come! set me apart Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them."

But he said to me, 'Go; I will send you afar to the Gentiles ????'"

I will rescue you from the People and also from the Gentiles ??to whom I send you,

through whom I have received the favour of my commission to promote obedience to the faith for his sake among all the Gentiles,

I tell you this, you Gentiles, that as an apostle to the Gentiles I lay great stress on my office,

In virtue of my office, I tell everyone of your number who is self-important, that he is not to think more of himself than he ought to think; he must take a sane view of himself, corresponding to the degree of faith which God has assigned to each.

Still, by way of refreshing your memory, I have written you with a certain freedom, in virtue of my divine commission

This is how you are to look upon us, as servants of Christ and stewards of God's secret truths.

I get a reward if I do it of my own accord, whereas to do it otherwise is no more than for a steward to discharge his trust.

But the God who had set me apart from my very birth called me by his grace,

(for He who equipped Peter to be an apostle of the circumcised equipped me as well for the uncircumcised),

for I am a minister of the church by the divine commission which has been granted me in your interests, to make a full presentation of God's message ??26 of that open secret which, though concealed from ages and generations of old, has now been disclosed to the saints of God.

as laid down by that glorious gospel of the blessed God with which I have been entrusted.

and I was appointed to be its herald and apostle (I am not telling a lie, it is quite true), to teach the Gentiles faith and truth.

Of that gospel I have been appointed a herald and an apostle and a teacher,