He made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure that He planned in Him

We have also received an inheritance in Him, predestined according to the purpose of the One who works out everything in agreement with the decision of His will,

so that we who had already put our hope in the Messiah might bring praise to His glory.

made us alive with the Messiah even though we were dead in trespasses. You are saved by grace!

so that in the coming ages He might display the immeasurable riches of His grace through His kindness to us in Christ Jesus.

For He is our peace, who made both groups one and tore down the dividing wall of hostility. In His flesh,

He made of no effect the law consisting of commands and expressed in regulations, so that He might create in Himself one new man from the two, resulting in peace.

He did this so that He might reconcile both to God in one body through the cross and put the hostility to death by it.

The mystery was made known to me by revelation, as I have briefly written above.

This was not made known to people in other generations as it is now revealed to His holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit:

I was made a servant of this gospel by the gift of God’s grace that was given to me by the working of His power.

This is so God’s multi-faceted wisdom may now be made known through the church to the rulers and authorities in the heavens.

This is according to His eternal purpose accomplished in the Messiah, Jesus our Lord.

The One who descended is also the One who ascended far above all the heavens, that He might fill all things.

Everything exposed by the light is made clear,

For this I am an ambassador in chains. Pray that I might be bold enough in Him to speak as I should.