Montgomery - Ephesians - 3

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

3:2  for surely you have heard of the stewardship of the grace of God entrusted to me for you?

3:3  You have heard how by direct revelation the secret truth was made known to me, as I have already briefly written you.

3:4  By reading what I have written, you can judge of my insight into that secret truth of Christ

3:5  which was not disclosed to the sons of men in former generations, as it has now been revealed by the Spirit to his holy apostles and prophets,

3:6  namely, that in Christ Jesus the Gentiles form one body with us the Jews, and are coheirs and copartners in the promise, through the gospel.

3:7  It is of this gospel I became a minister according to the gift of the power of the grace of God, bestowed on me by the energy of his power.

3:8  To me, who am less than the least of all saints, has this grace been given, that I should proclaim among the Gentiles the gospel of the unsearchable riches of Christ;

3:9  and should make all men see the new dispensation of that secret purpose, hidden from eternity in the God who founded the universe,

3:10  in order that now his manifold wisdom should, through the church, be made known to the principalities and powers in the heavenly sphere,

3:11  according to his eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord.

3:12  In him we have this fearless confidence and boldness of access through our faith in him.

3:13  So I beg you not to lose heart over my tribulations in your behalf; they are your glory.

3:14  For this cause I bend my knees before the Father,

3:15  from whom every fatherhood in heaven and earth is named,

3:16  praying him to grant you according to the riches of his glory to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in your inmost being;

3:17  that Christ may make his home in your hearts through your faith; that you may be so deeply rooted and so firmly grounded in love,

3:18  that you may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is "the breadth," "the length," "the depth," and "the height,"

3:19  and may know the love of Christ which transcends all knowing, so that you may be filled with all the "plenitude" of God.

3:20  Now unto him who, according to his might that is at work within us, is able to do infinitely more than all we ask or even think,

3:21  to him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus, to all generations, world without end, Amen.