'Dispensation' in the Bible

For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation of the gospel is committed unto me.

Now if the ministry of death, engraved in letters on stones [the covenant of the Law which led to death because of sin], came with such glory and splendor that the Israelites were not able to look steadily at the face of Moses because of its glory, [a brilliance] that was fading,

how will the ministry of the Spirit [the new covenant which allows us to be Spirit-filled] fail to be even more glorious and splendid?

That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him:

If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward:

and to make all men see what is the dispensation of the mystery which for ages hath been hid in God who created all things;

Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God;

nor to turn their minds to fables and interminable genealogies, which bring questionings rather than further God's dispensation, which is in faith.