While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.”
Ephesians 3:2 - English Standard Version 2016 assuming that you have heard of the stewardship of God’s grace that was given to me for you, 更多版本King James Version (Oxford) 1769 if ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Assuming that you have heard of the stewardship of God's grace (His unmerited favor) that was entrusted to me [to dispense to you] for your benefit, American Standard Version (1901) if so be that ye have heard of the dispensation of that grace of God which was given me to you-ward; Common English Bible You’ve heard, of course, about the responsibility to distribute God’s grace, which God gave to me for you, right? Catholic Public Domain Version Now certainly, you have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God, which has been given to me among you: Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version If yet you have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me towards you: |
While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.”
And Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly, saying, “It was necessary that the word of God be spoken first to you. Since you thrust it aside and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we are turning to the Gentiles.
But the Lord said to him, “Go, for he is a chosen instrument of mine to carry my name before the Gentiles and kings and the children of Israel.
through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of his name among all the nations,
Now I am speaking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch then as I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry
For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned.
This is how one should regard us, as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God.
For you have heard of my former life in Judaism, how I persecuted the church of God violently and tried to destroy it.
as a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth.
Of this gospel I was made a minister according to the gift of God’s grace, which was given me by the working of his power.
To me, though I am the very least of all the saints, this grace was given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,
and to bring to light for everyone what is the plan of the mystery hidden for ages in God, who created all things,
assuming that you have heard about him and were taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus,
since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love that you have for all the saints,
which has come to you, as indeed in the whole world it is bearing fruit and increasing—as it also does among you, since the day you heard it and understood the grace of God in truth,
in accordance with the gospel of the glory of the blessed God with which I have been entrusted.
nor to devote themselves to myths and endless genealogies, which promote speculations rather than the stewardship from God that is by faith.
For this I was appointed a preacher and an apostle (I am telling the truth, I am not lying), a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.