Parallel Verses

Modern King James verseion

if you have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given to me toward you,

New American Standard Bible

if indeed you have heard of the stewardship of God’s grace which was given to me for you;

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:

Julia Smith Translation

If ye have heard of the distribution of the grace of God given to me for you:

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 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,

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
If
εἴγε 
Eige 
if so be that, if, if yet
Usage: 5

ye have heard of
ἀκούω 
Akouo 
Usage: 313

οἰκονομία 
Oikonomia 
Usage: 5

of the grace
χάρις 
Charis 
Usage: 151

of God
θεός 
theos 
Usage: 1151


which, who, the things, the son,
Usage: 0

is given
δίδωμι 
Didomi 
Usage: 254

me
μοί 
Moi 
me, my, I, mine
Usage: 152

to
εἰς 
Eis 
into, to, unto, for, in, on, toward, against,
Usage: 1267

Devotionals

Devotionals about Ephesians 3:2

References

Images Ephesians 3:2

Prayers for Ephesians 3:2

Context Readings

The Mystery Of Christ Revealed

1 For this cause, I, Paul, am the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you nations, 2 if you have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given to me toward you, 3 that by revelation He made known to me the mystery (as I wrote before in few words,


Cross References

2 Timothy 1:11

to which I am appointed a preacher and an apostle and a teacher of the nations.

Romans 1:5

by whom we have received grace and apostleship, to obedience to the faith among all nations, for His name;

Ephesians 1:10

for an administration of the fullness of times, to head up all things in Christ, both the things in Heaven, and the things on earth, even in Him,

Ephesians 4:7

But to every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ.

Acts 9:15

But the Lord said to him, Go! For this one is a chosen vessel to Me, to bear My name before nations and kings and the sons of Israel.

Acts 13:2

As they ministered to the Lord and fasted, the Holy Spirit said, So, then, separate Barnabas and Saul to Me for the work to which I have called them.

Acts 13:46

But speaking boldly, Paul and Barnabas said, It was necessary for the Word of God to be spoken to you first. But since indeed you put it far from you and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the nations.

Acts 22:21

And He said to me, Go, for I will send you far away to the nations.

Acts 26:17-18

delivering you from the people and the nations, to whom I now send you

Romans 11:13

For I speak to you, the nations; since I am the apostle of the nations, I glorify my ministry;

Romans 12:3

For I say, through the grace given to me, to every one who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think. But set your mind to be right-minded, even as God has dealt to every man the measure of faith.

Romans 15:15-16

But, brothers, I wrote to you boldly, as reminding you in part, because of the grace that is given to me by God,

1 Corinthians 4:1

So let a man think of us as ministers of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God.

1 Corinthians 9:17-22

For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward; but if against my will, I am entrusted with a stewardship.

Galatians 1:13

For you heard my manner of life when I was in Judaism, that I persecuted the church of God with surpassing zeal, and ravaged it.

Galatians 1:15-16

But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and having called me by His grace,

Galatians 2:8-9

for He working in Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision also worked in me to the nations.

Ephesians 3:8

This grace is given to me (who am less than the least of all saints) to preach the gospel of the unsearchable riches of Christ among the nations,

Ephesians 4:21

if indeed you have heard Him and were taught by Him, as the truth is in Jesus.

Colossians 1:4

since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love you have to all the saints,

Colossians 1:6

which has come to you as it has also in all the world, and it is bearing fruit, even also among you, since the day you heard and fully knew the grace of God in truth,

Colossians 1:25-27

of which I became a minister, according to the administration of God given to me for you, to fulfill the Word of God;

1 Timothy 1:4

nor to give heed to fables and endless genealogies (which provide doubts rather than the nurture of God in faith).

1 Timothy 1:11

according to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.

1 Timothy 2:7

To this I am ordained a preacher and an apostle (I speak the truth in Christ, I do not lie), a teacher of the nations, in faith and truth.

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