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Ephesians 3:2

James Moffatt - New Testament

for surely you have heard how the grace of God which was vouchsafed me in your interests has ordered it,

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as laid down by that glorious gospel of the blessed God with which I have been entrusted.

Of that gospel I have been appointed a herald and an apostle and a teacher,

through whom I have received the favour of my commission to promote obedience to the faith for his sake among all the Gentiles,

But each one of us is granted his own grace, as determined by the full measure of Christ's gift.

This is how you are to look upon us, as servants of Christ and stewards of God's secret truths.

so to order it in the fulness of the ages that all things in heaven and earth alike should be gathered up in Christ —

You know the story of my past career in Judaism; you know how furiously I persecuted the church of God and harried it,

But he said to me, 'Go; I will send you afar to the Gentiles — — '"

So Paul and Barnabas spoke out fearlessly. "The word of God," they said, "had to be spoken to you in the first instance; but as you push it aside and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, well, here we turn to the Gentiles!

As they were worshipping the Lord and fasting, the holy Spirit said, "Come! set me apart Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them."

But the Lord said to him, "Go; I have chosen him to be the means of bringing my Name before the Gentiles and their kings as well as before the sons of Israel.

and I was appointed to be its herald and apostle (I am not telling a lie, it is quite true), to teach the Gentiles faith and truth.

and studying myths and interminable genealogies; such studies bear upon speculations rather than on the divine order which belongs to faith.

which has reached you as it spreads over all the world with fruit and increase. Such has been your life from the day you learned to know what God's grace really is.

since we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and your love for all the saints,

(for it is Christ whom you have been taught, it is in Christ that you have been instructed — the real Christ who is in Jesus);

less than the least of all saints as I am, this grace was vouchsafed me, that I should bring the Gentiles the gospel of the fathomless wealth of Christ

In virtue of my office, I tell everyone of your number who is self-important, that he is not to think more of himself than he ought to think; he must take a sane view of himself, corresponding to the degree of faith which God has assigned to each.

I tell you this, you Gentiles, that as an apostle to the Gentiles I lay great stress on my office,

Such is the gospel which I was called to serve by the endowment of God's grace which was vouchsafed me, by the energy of his power;

and enlighten all men upon the new order of that divine secret which God the Creator of all concealed from eternity —




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