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Ephesians 3:2

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if indeed you have heard of the stewardship of God’s grace that was given to me for you,

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While they were serving the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.”

Both Paul and Barnabas replied courageously, “It was necessary to speak the word of God to you first. Since you reject it and do not consider yourselves worthy of eternal life, we are turning to the Gentiles.

Then he said to me, ‘Go, because I will send you far away to the Gentiles.’”

But the Lord said to him, “Go, because this man is my chosen instrument to carry my name before Gentiles and kings and the people of Israel.

Through him we have received grace and our apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith among all the Gentiles on behalf of his name.

Now I am speaking to you Gentiles. Seeing that I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry,

For by the grace given to me I say to every one of you not to think more highly of yourself than you ought to think, but to think with sober discernment, as God has distributed to each of you a measure of faith.

One should think about us this way – as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God.

For you have heard of my former way of life in Judaism, how I was savagely persecuting the church of God and trying to destroy it.

toward the administration of the fullness of the times, to head up all things in Christ – the things in heaven and the things on earth.

I became a servant of this gospel according to the gift of God’s grace that was given to me by the exercise of his power.

To me – less than the least of all the saints – this grace was given, to proclaim to the Gentiles the unfathomable riches of Christ

and to enlighten everyone about God’s secret plan – a secret that has been hidden for ages in God who has created all things.

if indeed you heard about him and were taught in him, just as the truth is in Jesus.

But to each one of us grace was given according to the measure of the gift of Christ.

since we heard about your faith in Christ Jesus and the love that you have for all the saints.

that has come to you. Just as in the entire world this gospel is bearing fruit and growing, so it has also been bearing fruit and growing among you from the first day you heard it and understood the grace of God in truth.

This accords with the glorious gospel of the blessed God that was entrusted to me.

nor to occupy themselves with myths and interminable genealogies. Such things promote useless speculations rather than God’s redemptive plan that operates by faith.

For this I was appointed a preacher and apostle – I am telling the truth; I am not lying – and a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.

For this gospel I was appointed a preacher and apostle and teacher.




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