3:1   For this reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for the sake of you Gentiles--

3:2   if indeed you have heard of the stewardship of God's grace which God gave to me for you;

3:3   that by revelation I came to know the mystery, as I wrote before in brief.

3:4   By referring to this, when you read you can understand my insight into the mystery of Christ,

3:5   which in other generations the sons of men had not known, as God has revealed to His holy apostles and prophets in the Spirit;

3:6   For example, that the Gentiles have become fellow heirs and fellow members of the body, and fellow partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel,

3:7   of which God made me a minister, according to the gift of God's grace which He had given to me according to the working of His power.

3:8   God gave to me , the very least of all saints, this grace, to preach to the Gentiles the unfathomable riches of Christ,

3:9   and to bring to light the administration of the mystery which for ages has remained hidden in God who created all things;

3:10   so that the manifold wisdom of God might now have revelation through the church to the rulers and the authorities in the heavenly places.

3:11   This accorded with the eternal purpose which He carried out in Christ Jesus our Lord,

3:12   in whom we have boldness and confident access through faith in Him.

3:13   Therefore I ask you not to lose heart at my tribulations on your behalf, for they occur for your glory.

3:14   For this reason I bow my knees before the Father,

3:15  from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name,

3:16   that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to receive strength with power through His Spirit in the inner man,

3:17   so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you, find yourselves rooted and grounded in love,

3:18   may have the capability to comprehend with all the saints the breadth and length and height and depth,

3:19   and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may receive fulfillment up to all the fullness of God.

3:20   Now to Him who can do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us,

3:21   to Him belong the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever. Amen.