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

Ye

if indeed you heard about him and were taught in him, just as the truth is in Jesus.

For you have heard of my former way of life in Judaism, how I was savagely persecuting the church of God and trying to destroy it.

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

For this gospel I was appointed a preacher and apostle and teacher.

The dispensation

To me -- less than the least of all the saints -- this grace was given, to proclaim to the Gentiles the unfathomable riches of Christ

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

But the Lord said to him, "Go, because this man is my chosen instrument to carry my name before Gentiles and kings and the people of Israel.

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

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

I will rescue you from your own people and from the Gentiles, to whom I am sending you

Through him we have received grace and our apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith among all the Gentiles on behalf of his name.

Now I am speaking to you Gentiles. Seeing that I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry,

For by the grace given to me I say to every one of you not to think more highly of yourself than you ought to think, but to think with sober discernment, as God has distributed to each of you a measure of faith.

But I have written more boldly to you on some points so as to remind you, because of the grace given to me by God

One should think about us this way -- as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God.

For if I do this voluntarily, I have a reward. But if I do it unwillingly, I am entrusted with a responsibility.

But when the one who set me apart from birth and called me by his grace was pleased

(for he who empowered Peter for his apostleship to the circumcised also empowered me for my apostleship to the Gentiles)

I became a servant of the church according to the stewardship from God -- given to me for you -- in order to complete the word of God,

This accords with the glorious gospel of the blessed God that was entrusted to me.

For this I was appointed a preacher and apostle -- I am telling the truth; I am not lying -- and a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.

For this gospel I was appointed a preacher and apostle and teacher.