Among whom we all at one time were living in the pleasures of our flesh, giving way to the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and the punishment of God was waiting for us even as for the rest.

If that ordering of the grace of God has come to your knowledge, which was given to me for you,

How by revelation the secret was made clear to me, as I said before in a short letter,

Which in other generations was not given to the sons of men, but the revelation of it has now been made to his holy Apostles and prophets in the Spirit;

Of which I was made a preacher, through that grace of God which was given to me in the measure of the working of his power.

To me, who am less than the least of all the saints, was this grace given, so that I might make clear to the Gentiles the good news of the unending wealth of Christ:

For this was not the teaching of Christ which was given to you;

Let him who was a thief be so no longer, but let him do good work with his hands, so that he may have something to give to him who is in need.