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Ephesians 3

New Century Version NCV

1 So I, Paul, am a prisoner of Christ Jesus for you who are not Jews.

2 Surely you have heard that God gave me this work through his grace to help you.

3 He let me know his secret by showing it to me. I have already written a little about this.

4 If you read what I wrote then, you can see that I truly understand the secret about the Christ.

5 People who lived in other times were not told that secret. But now, through the Spirit, God has shown that secret to his holy apostles and prophets.

6 This is that secret: that through the Good News those who are not Jews will share with the Jews in God's blessing. They belong to the same body, and they share together in the promise that God made in Christ Jesus.

7 By God's special gift of grace given to me through his power, I became a servant to tell that Good News.

8 I am the least important of all God's people, but God gave me this gift -- to tell those who are not Jews the Good News about the riches of Christ, which are too great to understand fully.

9 And God gave me the work of telling all people about the plan for his secret, which has been hidden in him since the beginning of time. He is the One who created everything.

10 His purpose was that through the church all the rulers and powers in the heavenly world will now know God's wisdom, which has so many forms.

11 This agrees with the purpose God had since the beginning of time, and he carried out his plan through Christ Jesus our Lord.

12 In Christ we can come before God with freedom and without fear. We can do this through faith in Christ.

13 So I ask you not to become discouraged because of the sufferings I am having for you. My sufferings are for your glory.

14 So I bow in prayer before the Father

15 from whom every family in heaven and on earth gets its true name.

16 I ask the Father in his great glory to give you the power to be strong inwardly through his Spirit.

17 I pray that Christ will live in your hearts by faith and that your life will be strong in love and be built on love.

18 And I pray that you and all God's holy people will have the power to understand the greatness of Christ's love -- how wide and how long and how high and how deep that love is.

19 Christ's love is greater than anyone can ever know, but I pray that you will be able to know that love. Then you can be filled with the fullness of God.

20 With God's power working in us, God can do much, much more than anything we can ask or imagine.

21 To him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus for all time, forever and ever. Amen.

The Latin Vulgate VUL

1 huius rei gratia ego Paulus vinctus Christi Iesu pro vobis gentibus

2 si tamen audistis dispensationem gratiae Dei quae data est mihi in vobis

3 quoniam secundum revelationem notum mihi factum est sacramentum sicut supra scripsi in brevi

4 prout potestis legentes intellegere prudentiam meam in mysterio Christi

5 quod aliis generationibus non est agnitum filiis hominum sicuti nunc revelatum est sanctis apostolis eius et prophetis in Spiritu

6 esse gentes coheredes et concorporales et conparticipes promissionis in Christo Iesu per evangelium

7 cuius factus sum minister secundum donum gratiae Dei quae data est mihi secundum operationem virtutis eius

8 mihi omnium sanctorum minimo data est gratia haec in gentibus evangelizare ininvestigabiles divitias Christi

9 et inluminare omnes quae sit dispensatio sacramenti absconditi a saeculis in Deo qui omnia creavit

10 ut innotescat principibus et potestatibus in caelestibus per ecclesiam multiformis sapientia Dei

11 secundum praefinitionem saeculorum quam fecit in Christo Iesu Domino nostro

12 in quo habemus fiduciam et accessum in confidentia per fidem eius

13 propter quod peto ne deficiatis in tribulationibus meis pro vobis quae est gloria vestra

14 huius rei gratia flecto genua mea ad Patrem Domini nostri Iesu Christi

15 ex quo omnis paternitas in caelis et in terra nominatur

16 ut det vobis secundum divitias gloriae suae virtute corroborari per Spiritum eius in interiore homine

17 habitare Christum per fidem in cordibus vestris in caritate radicati et fundati

18 ut possitis conprehendere cum omnibus sanctis quae sit latitudo et longitudo et sublimitas et profundum

19 scire etiam supereminentem scientiae caritatem Christi ut impleamini in omnem plenitudinem Dei

20 ei autem qui potens est omnia facere superabundanter quam petimus aut intellegimus secundum virtutem quae operatur in nobis

21 ipsi gloria in ecclesia et in Christo Iesu in omnes generationes saeculi saeculorum amen