Ephesians 3:8

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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;

Who am

1 Peter 5:5

Is this

Acts 5:41

Romans 15:15

I

Unsearchable

General references

Bible References

Who am

As for brotherly love, be tenderly affectionate one to another, in honor preferring one another.

For I am the least of the apostles, I who am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

Do nothing out of strife, nothing out of vanity, but let each one in true humility consider the others to be of more account than himself.

although I had formerly been a blasphemer and a persecutor and a doer of outrage. But I obtained mercy because I acted ignorantly in unbelief.

You younger men must submit to the presbyters; and all of you must put on the garment of humility and serve one another, for God resists the haughty, But gives grace to the humble.

Is this

So they left Sanhedrin, rejoicing that they had been deemed worthy to suffer disgrace for the sake of the Name;

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.

I

and had called me by his grace, was pleased to reveal his Son in me, so that I might preach his gospel among the Gentiles, without consulting a human being,

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

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.

Unsearchable

praying him to grant you according to the riches of his glory to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in your inmost being;

It is in him we have deliverance, the forgiveness of our trespasses, through his blood;

in order that he might show to the ages to come the amazing riches of his grace by his goodness to us in Christ Jesus.

For out of his fulness we have all received, yes, grace upon grace.

Oh, the depths of the riches, both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unfathomable are his judgments, and how unsearchable his paths!

It is of him that you are in Christ Jesus, whom God made unto us wisdom and righteousness and sanctification and redemption,

Nay, as it is written. Eye has not seen, Nor ear heard, Neither have entered into man's heart The things which God has prepared For those who love him.

All your own needs my God will fully supply, according to his riches in glory, in Christ Jesus.

To them God willed to make known among the Gentiles how glorious are the riches of that secret truth, which is "Christ in you, the hope of glory."

For I would have you know how great a contest I am waging for you and the brethren in Laodicea, and for all who have never seen my face.

I advise you to buy of me gold refined by fire, that you may become rich; and white raiment to clothe yourself, so that the shame of your nakedness may not be made manifest; and eye-salve to anoint your eyes, in order that you may see.

General references

"'So go out into the partings of the highways, and summon everybody you find there to the wedding-feast.'

This is the Lord's doing; It is marvelous in our eyes."

"And people shall come from the Orient and from the Occident, from the north and from the south, and sit down in the kingdom of God.

And I know that when I come to you, I shall come in the fulness of the blessing of Christ.

For our knowing is imperfect, and our prophesying is imperfect;

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