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diff --git a/bible/base_files/engBBE_079_EPH_03_read.txt b/bible/base_files/engBBE_079_EPH_03_read.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ca916f6 --- /dev/null +++ b/bible/base_files/engBBE_079_EPH_03_read.txt @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +Ephesians. +Chapter 3. +For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for you Gentiles, +If that ordering of the grace of God has come to your knowledge, which was given to me for you, +How by revelation the secret was made clear to me, as I said before in a short letter, +By the reading of which you will be clear about my knowledge of the secret of Christ; +Which in other generations was not given to the sons of men, but the revelation of it has now been made to his holy Apostles and prophets in the Spirit; +Which is that the Gentiles have a part in the heritage, and in the same body, and in the same hope in Christ through the good news, +Of which I was made a preacher, through that grace of God which was given to me in the measure of the working of his power. +To me, who am less than the least of all the saints, was this grace given, so that I might make clear to the Gentiles the good news of the unending wealth of Christ: +And make all men see what is the ordering of the secret which from the first has been kept in God who made all things; +So that now to the rulers and the authorities in the heavens might be made clear through the church the wide-shining wisdom of God, +Which is seen in his eternal purpose in Christ Jesus our Lord: +By whom we come near to God without fear through faith in him. +For this reason it is my prayer that you may not become feeble because of my troubles for you, which are your glory. +For this cause I go down on my knees before the Father, +From whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, +That in the wealth of his glory he would make you strong with power through his Spirit in your hearts; +So that Christ may have his place in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and based in love, +May have strength to see with all the saints how wide and long and high and deep it is, +And to have knowledge of the love of Christ which is outside all knowledge, so that you may be made complete as God himself is complete. +Now to him who is able to do in full measure more than all our desires or thoughts, through the power which is working in us, +To him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations for ever and ever. So be it. |