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Ephesians 3:2

Twentieth Century New Testament 1904

For you have heard, I suppose, of the responsible charge with which God entrusted me for your benefit,

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While they were engaged in the worship of the Lord and were fasting, the Holy Spirit said: "Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul, for the work to which I have called them."

Then Paul and Barnabas spoke out fearlessly, and said: "It was necessary that the Message of God should be told to you first; but, since you reject it and reckon yourselves not worthy of the Immortal Life--we turn to the Gentiles!

But Jesus said to me 'Go; for I will send you to the Gentiles far away'."

But the Lord said to him: "Go, for this man is my chosen instrument to uphold my Name before the Gentiles and their kings, and the people of Israel.

Through him we received the gift of the Apostolic office, to win submission to the Faith among all nations for the glory of his Name.

But I am speaking to you who were Gentiles.

In fulfillment of the charge with which I have been entrusted, I bid every one of you not to think more highly of himself than he ought to think, but to think till he learns to think soberly--in accordance with the measure of faith that God has allotted to each.

Let men look upon us as Christ's servants, and as stewards of the hidden truths of God.

You heard, no doubt, of my conduct when I was devoted to Judaism--how I persecuted the Church of God to an extent beyond belief, and made havoc of it,

In view of that Divine Order which was to mark the completion of the ages, when he should make everything, both in Heaven and on earth, center in him.

Of this Good News I became a minister, in virtue of the charge with which God entrusted me in the exercise of his power--

Yes, to me, who am less than the least of all Christ's People, was this charge entrusted!--to tell the Gentiles the Good News of the boundless wealth to be found in the Christ,

And to make clear what is God's way of working out that hidden purpose which from the first has been concealed in the mind of the Creator of all things;

And through union with him were taught the Truth, as it is to be found in Jesus.

Every one of us, however, has been entrusted with some charge, each in accordance with the extent of the gift of the Christ.

Now that we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love that you have for all his People,

Bearing fruit and growing, as it does, through all the world, just as it did among you, from the very day that you heard of God's loving-kindness, and understood what that loving-kindness really is.

as is taught in the glorious Good News of the ever-blessed God, with which I was entrusted.

nor to devote their attention to legends and interminable genealogies, which tend to give rise to argument rather than to further that divine plan which is revealed in the Faith.

and it was for this that I was myself appointed a Herald and an Apostle (I am telling the simple truth and no lie)--a Teacher of the Gentiles in the Faith and Truth.

of which I was myself appointed a Herald and Apostle, and Teacher.




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