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For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for you Gentiles,

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If that ordering of the grace of God has come to your knowledge, which was given to me for you,

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How by revelation the secret was made clear to me, as I said before in a short letter,

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By the reading of which you will be clear about my knowledge of the secret of Christ

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Which in other generations was not given to the sons of men, but the revelation of it has now been made to his holy Apostles and prophets in the Spirit

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Which is that the Gentiles have a part in the heritage, and in the same body, and in the same hope in Christ through the good news,

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Of which I was made a preacher, through that grace of God which was given to me in the measure of the working of his power.

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To me, who am less than the least of all the saints, was this grace given, so that I might make clear to the Gentiles the good news of the unending wealth of Christ:

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And make all men see what is the ordering of the secret which from the first has been kept in God who made all things

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So that now to the rulers and the authorities in the heavens might be made clear through the church the wide-shining wisdom of God,

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Which is seen in his eternal purpose in Christ Jesus our Lord:

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By whom we come near to God without fear through faith in him.

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For this reason it is my prayer that you may not become feeble because of my troubles for you, which are your glory.