known to me,--as I wrote before in a few words, [3:4]by reading which
you can understand my knowledge of the mystery of Christ,-- [3:5]which
in other generations was not made known to the children of men as it
has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit,
[3:6]that the gentiles are co-heirs and of the same body and joint
partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel, [3:7]of
which I was made a minister by the gracious gift of God, given to me by
the operation of his power. [3:8]To me, who am the least of all saints,
was this grace given, to preach to the nations the unsearchable riches
of Christ, [3:9]and to enlighten all men as to the dispensation of the
mystery concealed from eternity in God who created all things,
[3:10]that now to the principalities and powers in the heavenly
[worlds] should be made known, through the church, the manifold wisdom
of God, [3:11]according to the eternal purpose which he made in Christ
Jesus our Lord, [3:12]in whom we have boldness and access with
confidence through faith in him.

7 [3:13]Wherefore I desire you not to faint on account of my
afflictions for you, which are your glory. [3:14]For this reason I bow
my knees to the Father, [3:15]of whom all the family in heaven and on
earth is named, [3:16]that he would grant to you according to the
riches of his glory, to be strengthened with power through his Spirit
in the inward man, [3:17]that Christ may dwell in your hearts through
the faith, you being founded and established in love, [3:18]that you
may be able to apprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and
length, and depth and height, [3:19]and to know the love of Christ
which exceeds knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness
of God. [3:20]To him that is able to do far beyond all that we ask or
think, by the power which operates in us, [3:21]to him be the glory in
the church in Jesus Christ to all generations, for ever and ever; amen.

CHAPTER II.

PERSONAL AND SOCIAL DUTIES.

1 [4:1]I THEREFORE, the prisoner of the Lord, exhort you to walk
worthily of the call with which you were called, [4:2]with all humility
and meekness, with long suffering, forbearing one another in love,
[4:3]using diligence to keep the unity of the spirit in the bond of
peace. [4:4]There is one body, and one spirit, as you also are called
in one hope of your call; [4:5]one Lord, one faith, one baptism;
[4:6]one God and Father of all, who is