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48 lines
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\v 1 Because of this I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for you Gentiles—
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\v 2 if you have heard of the management of the gift of God that he gave me for you,
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\v 3 according to the revelation made known to me, the hidden truth that I wrote about briefly in another letter.
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\v 4 When you read about this, you will be able to understand my insight into this hidden truth about Christ,
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\v 5 which in other generations was not made known to the human race, but which now has been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit.
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\v 6 This hidden truth is that the Gentiles are fellow heirs and fellow members of the body and fellow sharers in the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel.
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\v 7 For this I became a servant by the gift of God's grace given to me through the working of his power.
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\v 8 God gave this gift to me, although I am less than the lowest of those set apart for God, to proclaim to the Gentiles the gospel of the infinite riches of Christ,
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\v 9 and to bring everyone into the light and to tell them about God's secret plan—the plan that God (who created all things) had hidden for ages in the past.
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\v 10 The purpose for bringing everyone into the light was that, through the church, the rulers and authorities in the heavenly places would come to know the many-sided nature of the wisdom of God,
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\v 11 according to the eternal plan that he accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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\v 12 For in Christ we have boldness and access with confidence because of our faith in him.
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\v 13 Therefore I ask you not to be discouraged because of my sufferings for you, which are your glory.
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\v 14 For this cause I bend my knees to the Father,
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\v 15 after whom every family in heaven and on earth is named,
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\v 16 that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with power through his Spirit, who is in you.
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\v 17 I pray that Christ may live in your hearts through faith. And that you be rooted and grounded in his love,
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\v 18 so that you may be able to understand, along with all those set apart for God, how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ.
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\v 19 And I pray that you may know the surpassing greatness of Christ's love, so that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
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\v 20 Now to him who is able to do everything far, far above all that we ask or think, according to his power that works in us,
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\v 21 to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever. Amen.
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