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7 whereof I am made a minister by the gyfte of the grace of god geve vnto me thorow ye workynge of his power. 8 Vnto me the lest of all sayntes is this grace geven that I shuld preache amonge the gentyls the unsearchable ryches of Christ 9 and to make all men se what the felyshippe of the mistery is which from the begynnynge of the worlde hath bene hid in God which made all thynges thorow Iesus Christ 10 to the intent that now vnto the rulars and powers in heven myght be knowe by the cogregacion ye many folde wisdome of god 11 accordinge to ye eternall purpose which he purposed in Christ Iesu oure lorde 12 by who we are bolde to drawe nye in ye trust which we have by faith on hi 13 Wherfore I desire yt ye faynt not because of my trybulacios for youre sakes: which is youre prayse. 14 For this cause I bowe my knees vnto the father of oure lorde Iesus Christ 15 which is father over all that ys called father In heven and in erth 16 that he wolde graunt you acordynge to the ryches of his glory that ye maye be strenghted with myght by his sprete in the inner man 17 yt Christ maye dwell in youre hertes by fayth yt ye beynge roted and grounded in loue 18 myght be able to comprehende with all sayntes what ys that bredth aud length deepth and heyth: 19 and to knowe what is the love of Christ which love passeth knowledge: that ye might be fulfilled with all manner of fulnes which commeth of God. 20 Vnto him that is able to do excedynge aboudantly above all that we axe or thynke accordynge to the power that worketh i n vs 21 be prayse in the congregacion by Iesus Christ thorow out all generacios from tyme to tyme Amen. Ephesians 3:7-21, Tyndale Bible of 1526. Public domain.
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