Ephesians 3

¹For this reason, I, Paul, the prisoner of the Christ, Jesus, on behalf of you—the non-Jewish nations— ²assuming, of course, you have heard of the stewardship of God’s grace that was given to me for you: ³that by a revelation the mysterion was made known to me, as I wrote to you briefly before. ⁴By reading that, you are able to perceive my insight into the mysterion of the Christ. ⁵In other generations, this was not made known to the sons of men as it has now been revealed to his holy apostoloi and prophets by the Spirit: ⁶that the nations are joint-heirs, members of the same body, and joint-sharers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the evangelion.

⁷I became a servant of this evangelion according to the gift of God’s grace given to me through the internal working of his power. ⁸To me—the very least of all the holy ones—this grace was given: to announce the good news of the untraceable riches of the Christ to the nations, ⁹and to bring to light for everyone what is the stewardship of the mysterion which has been hidden for ages in God, who created all things. ¹⁰This was done so that the multi-faceted wisdom of God might now be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly realms through the ekklesia, ¹¹according to the purpose of the ages which he accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord. ¹²In him we have boldness and access with confidence through his faithfulness. ¹³Therefore, I ask you not to lose heart over my afflictions on your behalf, which are your glory.

¹⁴For this reason, I bend my knees before the Father, ¹⁵from whom every family-lineage in the heavens and on earth derives its name. ¹⁶I pray that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner person, ¹⁷so that the Christ may take up residence in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, having been rooted and founded in love, ¹⁸may have the strength to grasp, together with all the holy ones, what is the breadth and length and height and depth— ¹⁹and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, so that you may be filled until you reach all the fullness of God.

²⁰Now to him who is able to do far beyond all things—exceedingly more than we ask or even imagine, according to the power that is at work within us— ²¹to him be the glory in the ekklesia and in Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.