Twentieth Century [1904], THE TWENTIETH CENTURY NEW TESTAMENT A TRANSLATION INTO MODERN ENGLISH Made from the Original Greek (Westcott & Hort's Text) (The Fleming H. Revell Company, NEW YORK & CHICAGO) [word count] [B14200].
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III.—The Apostle's Divine Commission to the Gentiles.
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1 For this reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Jesus,
the Christ,
2 for the sake of you Gentiles—for you
have heard, I suppose, of the responsible charge
with which God entrusted me for your benefit,
3 and also that it was by direct revelation that
the hidden purpose of God was made known to me, as I
have already briefly told you.
4 And, by reading what I
have written, you will be able to judge how far I understand
this hidden purpose of God in Christ.
5 In former generations
it was not made known to mankind, as fully as it has
now been revealed by the Spirit to the Apostles and Prophets
among Christ's People—that,
6 by union with Christ Jesus and
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through the Good News, the Gentiles are co-heirs with us and
members of one Body, and that they share with us in God's
Promise.
7 Of this Good News I became a minister, in virtue
of the charge with which God entrusted me in the exercise of
his power—yes,
8 to me, who am less than the least of all
Christ's People, was this charge entrusted!—to tell the Gentiles
the Good News of the boundless wealth to be found in
the Christ,
9 and to make clear what is God's way of working
out that hidden purpose which from the first has been
concealed in the mind of the Creator of all things;
10 note so
that now to the Archangels and to all the Powers
on high should be made known, through the
Church,
11 the all-embracing wisdom of God, in
accordance with that purpose which runs through
all the ages and which he has now accomplished
in Jesus, the Christ, our Master.
12 And in union
with him, and through our trust in him, we find courage
to approach God with confidence. ⪆⪆
13 Therefore I beg
you not to be disheartened at the sufferings that I am undergoing
for your sakes; for they redound to your honour.
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14 For this reason, then, I kneel before the
15 Father—from whom all ‘fatherhood’ in Heaven
and on earth derives its name—and pray that,
16
in proportion to the wealth of his glory, he will
strengthen you with his power by breathing his
Spirit into your inmost soul,
17 so that the Christ, through your
faith, may make his home within your hearts in love; and
I pray that you,
18 now firmly rooted and established, may, with
all Christ's People, have the power to comprehend in all its
width and length and height and depth,
19 and to understand—
though it surpasses all understanding—the love of the Christ;
and so be filled to the full with God himself.
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20 To him who, through his power which is at
work within us, is able to do far more than anything
21 that we can ask or conceive—to him be all glory through
the Church and through Christ Jesus, for all generations, age
after age. Amen.
Twentieth Century [1904], THE TWENTIETH CENTURY NEW TESTAMENT A TRANSLATION INTO MODERN ENGLISH Made from the Original Greek (Westcott & Hort's Text) (The Fleming H. Revell Company, NEW YORK & CHICAGO) [word count] [B14200].
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