The Mystery of the Gospel

¹For this reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for the sake of y’all ethnic groups—

²if indeed y’all have heard of the administration of the grace of God that was given to me for y’all,

³that the mystery was made known to me by revelation, as I wrote before in brief.

⁴By reading this, y’all will be able to understand my insight into the mystery of Christ,

⁵which in other generations was not made known to the children of humans, as it has now been unveiled to his holy apostles and prophets in the Spirit,

⁶that the ethnic groups are fellow heirs and fellow members of the body, and fellow partakers of ʜɪꜱ promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel.

⁷I was made a deacon according to the gift of God’s grace which was given to me according to the working of ʜɪꜱ power.

⁸This grace was given to me, the very least of all saints, to announce the unsearchable riches of Christ to the ethnic groups,

⁹and to enlighten everyone to the administration of the mystery which for ages has been hidden in God who created all things.

¹⁰Hɪꜱ intent was that now through the church the manifold wisdom of God might be made known to the principalities and the powers in the heavenly places,

¹¹according to the eternal purpose which ʜᴇ accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord.

¹²In him we have boldness and confidence to approach God through our faith in him.

¹³Therefore I ask y’all not to lose heart at my oppressions for y’all, which are your* glory.

A Triune Prayer

¹⁴For this reason I kneel before the Father,

¹⁵from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named.

¹⁶I pray that ʜᴇ would grant y’all, according to the riches of ʜɪꜱ glory, to be strengthened with power through ʜɪꜱ Spirit in your inner being,

¹⁷and that Christ may dwell in y’all’s hearts through faith, so that, being rooted and grounded in love,

¹⁸y’all may be enabled, together with all the saints, to comprehend the width and length and height and depth

¹⁹of Christ’s love and to know that it surpasses knowledge, so that y’all may be filled with all the fullness of God.

²⁰Now to ʜɪᴍ who is able to do superabundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,

²¹to ʜɪᴍ be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.