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

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If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward:

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How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery (as I wrote afore in few words,

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Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ)

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Which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men, as it is now revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit

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That the Gentiles should be fellowheirs, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel:

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Whereof I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God given unto me by the effectual working of his power.

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Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ

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And to make all [men] see what [is] the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ:

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To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly [places] might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God,

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According to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord:

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In whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him.

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Wherefore I desire that ye faint not at my tribulations for you, which is your glory.