Ephesians 3:1–13

¹For this cause, I Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for you the nations, ²if, indeed, ye did hear of the dispensation of the grace of God that was given to me in regard to you, ³that by revelation He made known to me the secret, according as I wrote before in few words— ⁴in regard to which ye are able, reading it, to understand my knowledge in the secret of the Christ, ⁵which 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— ⁶that the nations be fellow-heirs, and of the same body, and partakers of His promise in the Christ, through the good news, ⁷of 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; ⁸to 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, ⁹and 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, ¹⁰that there might be made known now to the principalities and the authorities in the heavenly places, through the assembly, the manifold wisdom of God, ¹¹according to a purpose of the ages, which He made in Christ Jesus our Lord, ¹²in whom we have the freedom and the access in confidence through the faith of him, ¹³wherefore, I ask you not to faint in my tribulations for you, which is your glory.