Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
If ye have heard of the distribution of the grace of God given to me for you:
New American Standard Bible
if indeed you have heard of the
King James Version
If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward:
Holman Bible
you have heard, haven’t you, about the administration of God’s grace that He gave to me for you?
International Standard Version
Surely you have heard about the responsibility of administering God's grace that was given to me on your behalf,
A Conservative Version
since indeed ye heard of the administration of the grace of God, which was given to me for you,
American Standard Version
if so be that ye have heard of the dispensation of that grace of God which was given me to you-ward;
Amplified
assuming that you have heard of the stewardship of God’s grace that was entrusted to me [to share with you] for your benefit;
An Understandable Version
[Note: Paul here digresses from his prayer, begun in 1:15-16, to explain the circumstances of his being a prisoner on behalf of these Gentiles]. [I assume] you have heard about my commission [to minister] to you, which was given to me by God's unearned favor.
Anderson New Testament
if, indeed, you have heard of the stewardship of the grace of God, which was given to me for your benefit,
Bible in Basic English
If that ordering of the grace of God has come to your knowledge, which was given to me for you,
Common New Testament
assuming that you have heard of the stewardship of God's grace that was given to me for you,
Daniel Mace New Testament
if so be you have heard of the charge, which God has graciously dispens'd to me for you Gentiles;
Darby Translation
(if indeed ye have heard of the administration of the grace of God which has been given to me towards you,
John Wesley New Testament
given me to you ward, That by revelation he made known to me the mystery:
King James 2000
If you have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me toward you:
Lexham Expanded Bible
--if indeed you have heard [about] the stewardship of God's grace given to me for you.
Modern King James verseion
if you have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given to me toward you,
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
If ye have heard of the ministration of the grace of God which is given me to you ward -
NET Bible
if indeed you have heard of the stewardship of God's grace that was given to me for you,
New Heart English Bible
if it is so that you have heard of the administration of that grace of God which was given me toward you;
Noyes New Testament
if, indeed, ye heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which was given me toward you,
Sawyer New Testament
if indeed you heard of the dispensation of the grace of God given to me for you,
The Emphasized Bible
If at least ye have heard of the administration of the favour of God which hath been given unto me for you,
Thomas Haweis New Testament
if so be, that ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which was given to me for you:
Twentieth Century New Testament
For you have heard, I suppose, of the responsible charge with which God entrusted me for your benefit,
Webster
If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me on your account.
Weymouth New Testament
if, that is, you have heard of the work which God has graciously entrusted to me for your benefit,
Williams New Testament
that is, if you have heard how God's favor has been entrusted to me for you,
World English Bible
if it is so that you have heard of the administration of that grace of God which was given me toward you;
Worrell New Testament
if, at least, ye heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which was given to me for you,
Worsley New Testament
as ye have heard the dispensation of the grace of God, which was given me to preach unto you:
Youngs Literal Translation
if, indeed, ye did hear of the dispensation of the grace of God that was given to me in regard to you,
Themes
Disciples/apostles » What the disciples know
Gentiles/heathen » The apostle of the gentiles/heathen
Gospel » Called » The dispensation of the grace of God
The gospel » Is called the » Dispensation of the grace of God
Holy spirit » The holy spirit witnessing
Knowledge » What the disciples know
Partaking » Who partakes with the lord
Interlinear
References
Word Count of 33 Translations in Ephesians 3:2
Prayers for Ephesians 3:2
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Mystery Of Christ Revealed
1 For this, I Paul, the imprisoned of Christ Jesus for you the nations, 2 If ye have heard of the distribution of the grace of God given to me for you: 3 That by revelation he made Known to me the mystery; (as I before wrote briefly,
Phrases
Names
Cross References
2 Timothy 1:11
To which I was set a herald, and sent, teacher of the nations.
Romans 1:5
By whom we received grace and sending forth, to the obedience of faith in all nations for his name:
Ephesians 1:10
For the arrangement of the completion of the times, to unite in a whole all things in Christ, both the things in the heavens, and the things upon earth; in him:
Ephesians 4:7
And to each one of us was grace given according to the measure of the gift of Christ.
Acts 9:15
And the Lord said to him, Go: for he is a vessel of choice to me, to lift up my name before nations, and kings, and the sons of Israel:
Acts 13:2
And they serving the Lord, and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, Separate to me Barnabas and Saul to the work which I have called them.
Acts 13:46
And Paul and Barnabas speaking freely, said, To you was it first necessary for the word of God to be spoken: but since ye reject it, and judge yourselves not worthy of eternal life, behold, we turn to the nations.
Acts 22:21
And he said to me, Go: for I will send thee far off to the nations.
Acts 26:17-18
Taking thee away from people, and nations, to whom I now send thee.
Romans 11:13
(For I speak to you the nations, inasmuch as truly I am the sent of the nations, I highly value my service:
Romans 12:3
For I say, by the race given me, to every one being with you, not to entertain a high opinion of one's self above what is fitting to think: but to think to be discreet, as God has divided the measure of faith to each.
Romans 15:15-16
And I wrote to you more boldly, brethren, from part as reminding you, by the grace given me by God,
1 Corinthians 4:1
So let a man reckon us, as servants of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.
1 Corinthians 9:17-22
For if of free will I do this, I have reward: and if unwillingly, I have been entrusted with a stewardship.
Galatians 1:13
For ye heard of my turning about when in Judaism, that in excess I drove out the church of God, and laid it waste:
Galatians 1:15-16
And when God was contented, having separated me from my mother's womb, and having called me, by his grace,
Galatians 2:8-9
(For be having been energetic in Peter for the mission of circumcision, was energetic also in me for the nations:)
Ephesians 3:8
To me, the least of all the holy ones, was this grace given, to announce the good news in the nations, the untraceable riches of Christ.
Ephesians 4:21
If ye heard him, and were taught in him, as is the truth in Jesus:
Colossians 1:4
Having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and love to all the holy,
Colossians 1:6
Being present to you as also in all the world; and is bearing fruit, as also in you, from the day which ye heard and knew the grace of God in truth:
Colossians 1:25-27
Of which I was a servant, according to the stewardship of God, given to me for you, to complete the word of God;
1 Timothy 1:4
Neither hold to fictions and endless genealogies, which offer questions, rather than the arrangement of God in the faith:
1 Timothy 1:11
According to the good news of the glory of the blessed God, with which I was entrusted.
1 Timothy 2:7
For which I was placed a herald, and the sent, (I speak truth in Christ, I lie not;) a teacher of the nations in faith and truth.