3:1  For this cause, I Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for you the nations,

3:2  if, indeed, ye did hear of the dispensation of the grace of God that was given to me in regard to you,

3:3  that by revelation He made known to me the secret, according as I wrote before in few `words' --

3:4  in regard to which ye are able, reading `it', to understand my knowledge in the secret of the Christ,

3:5  which in other generations was not made known to the sons of men, as it was now revealed to His holy apostles and prophets in the Spirit --

3:6  that the nations be fellow-heirs, and of the same body, and partakers of His promise in the Christ, through the good news,

3:7  of which I became a ministrant, according to the gift of the grace of God that was given to me, according to the working of His power;

3:8  to me -- the less than the least of all the saints -- was given this grace, among the nations to proclaim good news -- the untraceable riches of the Christ,

3:9  and to cause all to see what `is' the fellowship of the secret that hath been hid from the ages in God, who the all things did create by Jesus Christ,

3:10  that there might be made known now to the principalities and the authorities in the heavenly `places', through the assembly, the manifold wisdom of God,

3:11  according to a purpose of the ages, which He made in Christ Jesus our Lord,

3:12  in whom we have the freedom and the access in confidence through the faith of him,

3:13  wherefore, I ask `you' not to faint in my tribulations for you, which is your glory.

3:14  For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,

3:15  of whom the whole family in the heavens and on earth is named,

3:16  that He may give to you, according to the riches of His glory, with might to be strengthened through His Spirit, in regard to the inner man,

3:17  that the Christ may dwell through the faith in your hearts, in love having been rooted and founded,

3:18  that ye may be in strength to comprehend, with all the saints, what `is' the breadth, and length, and depth, and height,

3:19  to know also the love of the Christ that is exceeding the knowledge, that ye may be filled -- to all the fulness of God;

3:20  and to Him who is able above all things to do exceeding abundantly what we ask or think, according to the power that is working in us,

3:21  to Him `is' the glory in the assembly in Christ Jesus, to all the generations of the age of the ages. Amen.