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which in other generations was not made known to the sons of men, as it was now revealed to His holy apostles and prophets in the Spirit--

that the nations be fellow-heirs, and of the same body, and partakers of His promise in the Christ, through the good news,

to me--the less than the least of all the saints--was given this grace, among the nations to proclaim good news--the untraceable riches of the Christ,

and to cause all to see what is the fellowship of the secret that hath been hid from the ages in God, who the all things did create by Jesus Christ,

according to a purpose of the ages, which He made in Christ Jesus our Lord,

in whom we have the freedom and the access in confidence through the faith of him,

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

that He may give to you, according to the riches of His glory, with might to be strengthened through His Spirit, in regard to the inner man,

that the Christ may dwell through the faith in your hearts, in love having been rooted and founded,

to know also the love of the Christ that is exceeding the knowledge, that ye may be filled--to all the fulness of God;

and to Him who is able above all things to do exceeding abundantly what we ask or think, according to the power that is working in us,

to Him is the glory in the assembly in Christ Jesus, to all the generations of the age of the ages. Amen.

Call upon you, then, do I--the prisoner of the Lord--to walk worthily of the calling with which ye were called,

one Lord, one faith, one baptism,

and to each one of you was given the grace, according to the measure of the gift of Christ,

wherefore, he saith, `Having gone up on high he led captive captivity, and gave gifts to men,' --

and that, he went up, what is it except that he also went down first to the lower parts of the earth?

he who went down is the same also who went up far above all the heavens, that He may fill all things--

and He gave some as apostles, and some as prophets, and some as proclaimers of good news, and some as shepherds and teachers,

unto the perfecting of the saints, for a work of ministration, for a building up of the body of the Christ,

till we may all come to the unity of the faith and of the recognition of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to a measure of stature of the fulness of the Christ,

and, being true in love, we may increase to Him in all things, who is the head--the Christ;

This, then, I say, and I testify in the Lord; ye are no more to walk, as also the other nations walk, in the vanity of their mind,

and ye did not so learn the Christ,

if so be ye did hear him, and in him were taught, as truth is in Jesus;