Chapter 3

For witnessing the vocation of the Gentiles, as being the Apostle of the Gentiles, he is in prison: ℣.13 Wherein the Gentiles therefore have cause to rejoice, rather than to shrink. So he saith, ℣.14 and also prayeth to God (who is almighty) to confirm their inward man, though the outward be infirmed by persecutions.

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   For this cause, I Christ, for you Gentiles: heard the dispensation of the grace of , Paul the prisoner of Jesus

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   if yet you have God, which is given me toward you.

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   because according to revelation the sacrament was made known to me, as I have written before in brief:

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   according as you reading, may understand my wisdom in the mystery of Christ,

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   which unto other generations was not known to the sons of men, as now it is revealed to his holy Apostles, and Prophets in the Spirit.

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   The Gentiles to be coheirs and concorporate and comparticipant of his promise in Christ Jesus by the Gospel:

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   whereof I am made a minister according to the gift of the grace of God, which is given me according to the operation of his power.

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   To me the least of all the saints is given this grace, among the Gentiles to evangelize the unsearchable riches of Christ,

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   & to illuminate all men what is the dispensation of the sacrament hidden from worlds in God, who created all things:

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    that the manifold wisdom of God, may be notified to the Princes & Potestates in the celestials by the Church,

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    according to the prefinition of worlds, which he made in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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    In whom we have affiance and access in confidence by the faith of him.

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    For the which cause I desire that you faint not in my tribulations for you, which is your glory.

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    For this cause I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,

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    of whom all paternity in the Heavens and in earth is named,

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    that he give you according to the riches of his glory, power to be fortified by his Spirit in the inner man.

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    Christ to dwell by faith in your hearts, rooted and founded in charity,

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

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    to know also the charity of Christ, surpassing knowledge, that you may be filled unto all the fullness of God.

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    And to him that is able to do all things more aboundantly than we desire or understand, according to the power that worketh in us:

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    to him be glory in the Church, and in Christ Jesus, unto all generations world without end. Amen.