Ephesians 3:2

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

You have heard about God's kindness in choosing me to help you.

Cross References

Acts 13:2

While they were worshipping the Lord and going without eating, the Holy Spirit told them, “Appoint Barnabas and Saul to do the work for which I have chosen them.”

Acts 13:46

But Paul and Barnabas bravely said: We had to tell God's message to you before we told it to anyone else. But you rejected the message! This proves that you don't deserve eternal life. Now we are going to the Gentiles.

Acts 22:21

But the Lord told me to go, and he promised to send me far away to the Gentiles.

Acts 9:15

The Lord said to Ananias, “Go! I have chosen him to tell foreigners, kings, and the people of Israel about me.

Romans 1:5

Jesus was kind to me and chose me to be an apostle, so that people of all nations would obey and have faith.

Romans 11:13

I am now speaking to you Gentiles, and as long as I am an apostle to you, I will take pride in my work.

Romans 12:3

I realize how kind God has been to me, and so I tell each of you not to think you are better than you really are. Use good sense and measure yourself by the amount of faith that God has given you.

1 Corinthians 4:1

Think of us as servants of Christ who have been given the work of explaining God's mysterious ways.

Galatians 1:13

You know how I used to live as a Jew. I was cruel to God's church and even tried to destroy it.

Ephesians 1:10

Then when the time is right, God will do all that he has planned, and Christ will bring together everything in heaven and on earth.

Ephesians 3:7

God treated me with kindness. His power worked in me, and it became my job to spread the good news.

Ephesians 3:8

I am the least important of all God's people. But God was kind and chose me to tell the Gentiles that because of Christ there are blessings that cannot be measured.

Ephesians 3:9

God, who created everything, wanted me to help everyone understand the mysterious plan that had always been hidden in his mind.

Ephesians 4:7

Christ has generously divided out his gifts to us.

Colossians 1:4

We have heard of your faith in Christ and of your love for all God's people,

Colossians 1:6

The good news is spreading all over the world with great success. It has spread in that same way among you, ever since the first day you learnt the truth about God's wonderful kindness

1 Timothy 1:11

of the good news that the glorious and wonderful God has given me.

1 Timothy 1:4

You needed to warn them to stop wasting their time on senseless stories and endless lists of ancestors. Such things only cause arguments. They don't help anyone to do God's work that can only be done by faith.

1 Timothy 2:7

This is why God chose me to be a preacher and an apostle of the good news. I am telling the truth. I am not lying. God sent me to teach the Gentiles about faith and truth.

2 Timothy 1:11

My work is to be a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher.