1. For this reason I Paul, prisoner of the Christ Jesus for you nations,
2. (if indeed ye have heard of the administration of the grace of God which has been given to me towards you,
3. that by revelation the mystery has been made known to me, (according as I have written before briefly,
4. by which, in reading it, ye can understand my intelligence in the mystery of the Christ,)
5. which in other generations has not been made known to the sons of men, as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets in the power of the Spirit,
6. that they who are of the nations should be joint heirs, and a joint body, and joint partakers of his promise in Christ Jesus by the glad tidings;
7. of which I am become minister according to the gift of the grace of God given to me, according to the working of his power.
8. To me, less than the least of all saints, has this grace been given, to announce among the nations the glad tidings of the unsearchable riches of the Christ,
9. and to enlighten all with the knowledge of what is the administration of the mystery hidden throughout the ages in God, who has created all things,
10. in order that now to the principalities and authorities in the heavenlies might be made known through the assembly the all-various wisdom of God,
11. according to the purpose of the ages, which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord,
12. in whom we have boldness and access in confidence by the faith of him.