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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1For this reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for the sake of you Gentiles-- |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2if indeed you have heard of the stewardship of God's grace that was given to me for you, |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3that by revelation the divine secret was made known to me, as I wrote before briefly. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4When reading this, you will be able to understand my insight into this secret of Christ. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Now this secret was not disclosed to people in former generations as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit, |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6namely, that through the gospel the Gentiles are fellow heirs, fellow members of the body, and fellow partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7I became a servant of this gospel according to the gift of God's grace that was given to me by the exercise of his power. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8To me--less than the least of all the saints--this grace was given, to proclaim to the Gentiles the unfathomable riches of Christ |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9and to enlighten everyone about God's secret plan--a secret that has been hidden for ages in God who has created all things. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10The purpose of this enlightenment is that through the church the multifaceted wisdom of God should now be disclosed to the rulers and the authorities in the heavenly realms. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11This was according to the eternal purpose that he accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord, |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12in whom we have boldness and confident access to God because of Christ's faithfulness. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13For this reason I ask you not to lose heart because of what I am suffering for you, which is your glory. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14For this reason I kneel before the Father, |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15from whom every family in heaven and on the earth is named. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16I pray that according to the wealth of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inner person, |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, so that, because you have been rooted and grounded in love, |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18you may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19and thus to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, so that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Now to him who by the power that is working within us is able to do far beyond all that we ask or think, |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21to him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen. |
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