1 For this reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for you Gentiles;

2 if indeed you have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which was given to me for you,

3 how that by revelation He made known to me the mystery (as I have briefly written already,

4 by which, when you read, you may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ),

5 which in other ages was not made known to the sons of men, as it has now been revealed by the Spirit to His holy apostles and prophets:

6 that the Gentiles should be fellow heirs, of the same body, and joint partakers 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 effective working of His power.