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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Ephesians 3 Literal Standard Version</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/ephesians/3.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/ephesians/3-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">LSV</a> > Ephesians 3</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../ephesians/2.htm" title="Ephesians 2">◄</a> Ephesians 3 <a href="../ephesians/4.htm" title="Ephesians 4">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Literal Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/ephesians/3-1.htm#aramaic" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/3-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>For this cause, I Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for you the nations, <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/3-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>if, indeed, you heard of the dispensation of the grace of God that was given to me in regard to you, <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/3-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>that by revelation He made known to me the secret, according as I wrote before in few [words]— <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/3-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>in regard to which you are able, reading [it], to understand my knowledge in the secret of the Christ, <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/3-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>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— <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/3-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>that the nations are fellow-heirs, and of the same body, and partakers of His promise in the Christ, through the good news, <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/3-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>of which I became a servant, according to the gift of the grace of God that was given to me, according to the working of His power; <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/3-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>to me—the less than the least of all the holy ones—was given this grace, among the nations to proclaim good news—the untraceable riches of the Christ, <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/3-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>and to cause all to see what [is] the fellowship of the secret that has been hid from the ages in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ, <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/3-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>that there might be made known now to the principalities and the authorities in the heavenly [places], through the Assembly, the manifold wisdom of God, <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/3-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>according to a purpose of the ages, which He made in Christ Jesus our Lord, <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/3-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>in whom we have the freedom and the access in confidence through the faith of Him, <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/3-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>for this reason, I ask [you] not to faint in my tribulations for you, which is your glory.<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/3-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>For this cause I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/3-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>of whom the whole family in the heavens and on earth is named, <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/3-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>that He may give to you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened through His Spirit with might, in regard to the inner man, <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/3-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>that the Christ may dwell through the faith in your hearts, having been rooted and founded in love, <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/3-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>that you may be in strength to comprehend, with all the holy ones, what [is] the breadth, and length, and depth, and height, <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/3-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>to know also the love of the Christ that is exceeding the knowledge, that you may be filled—to all the fullness of God;<p> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/3-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>and to Him who is able to do exceedingly [and] abundantly above all things that we ask or think, according to the power that is working in us, <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/3-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>to Him [is] the glory in the Assembly in Christ Jesus, to all the generations of the age of the ages. 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