1 For this reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles—
2 assuming you have heard of the stewardship of God's grace that was entrusted to me for your benefit,
3 how by revelation he made known to me the mystery, as I have briefly written above;
4 so that, when you read, you can understand my knowledge of the mystery of Christ,
5 which in other generations was not made known to the sons of men as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit:
6 that the Gentiles are fellow heirs, and of the same body, and partakers together of his promise in Christ through the gospel,
7 of which I was made a minister according to the gift of the grace of God given to me by the working of his power.
8 To me, who am less than the least of all the saints, this grace was given, to preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,
9 and to make all see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the ages has been hidden in God, who created all things through Jesus Christ,
10 so that now the manifold wisdom of God might be made known through the church to the principalities and authorities in the heavenly places,
11 according to the eternal purpose that he carried out in Christ Jesus our Lord,
12 in whom we have our boldness and our access in confidence through faith in him.
13 Therefore I ask that you not lose heart over my afflictions on your behalf, which are your glory.
14 For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
15 from whom every family in the heavens and on earth takes its name,
16 that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might through his Spirit in the inner man,
17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith;
18 that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and depth and height,
19 and to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge, so that you may be filled to all the fullness of God.
20 Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,
21 to him be the glory in the church in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen.