Ephesians 3:2

The Mystery Of Christ Revealed

¹ This is why I, Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus for the sake of the heathen -- ² that is, if you have heard how God's favor has been entrusted to me for you, ³ and how by revelation the secret was made known to me, as I have briefly written before.

Grace of God

Paul

2 Timothy 1:11

Of this good news I have been appointed a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher.

Romans 1:5

through whom we have received God's favor and a commission as an apostle in His name to urge upon all the heathen obedience inspired by faith,

Ephesians 1:10

so that, at the coming of the climax of the ages, everything in heaven and on earth should be unified through Christ,

Ephesians 4:7

But in accordance with the measure of Christ's gift, His favor has been bestowed upon each one of us.

Acts 9:15

But the Lord said to him, "Go, for he is a chosen instrument of mine to carry my name to the heathen and their kings, and to the descendants of Israel.

Acts 13:2

While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, "Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul, for the work to which I have called them."

Acts 13:46

Then Paul and Barnabas courageously spoke out, "God's message had to be spoken to you Jews first, but since you continue to thrust it from you and since you show yourselves unworthy to receive eternal life, now and here we turn to the heathen.

Acts 22:21

Then He said to me, 'Go, because I am to send you out and far away among the heathen.'"

Acts 26:17-18

I will continue to rescue you from the Jewish people and from the heathen to whom I am going to send you,

Romans 11:13

Yes, I now am speaking to you who are a part of the heathen peoples. As I am an apostle to the heathen peoples, I am making the most of my ministry to them, to see

Romans 12:3

Now through the unmerited favor God has shown me I would say to every one of you not to estimate himself above his real value, but to make a sober rating of himself, in accordance with the degree of faith which God has apportioned to him.

Romans 15:15-16

And yet, to refresh your memories, I have written you rather freely on some details, because of the unmerited favor shown me by God

1 Corinthians 4:1

As for us apostles, men ought to think of us as ministers of Christ and trustees to handle God's uncovered truths.

1 Corinthians 9:17-22

For if I do it of my own accord, I get my pay; but if I am unwilling to do it, I still am entrusted with trusteeship.

Galatians 1:13

You have heard, indeed, of my former conduct as an adherent of the Jewish religion, how I kept on furiously persecuting the church of God, and tried to destroy it,

Galatians 1:15-16

But when God, who had already set me apart from my birth, and had called me by His unmerited favor,

Galatians 2:8-9

for He who had been at work in Peter for his apostleship to the Jews had been at work in me too for the apostleship to the heathen --

Ephesians 3:8

yes, on me, the very least of all His people, this unmerited favor was bestowed -- that I might preach as good news to the heathen the boundless riches of Christ,

Ephesians 4:21

if, as I take it, you have heard Him and in union with Him have been taught the truth as it is seen in Jesus,

Colossians 1:4

because we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of your love for all God's people,

Colossians 1:6

which reached you, and since it is bearing fruit and growing among you, just as it is all over the world, from the day you first heard of God's favor and in reality came to know it,

Colossians 1:25-27

In it I have been made a minister in accordance with the trusteeship God entrusted to me for you, that I might prove among you the universal message of God,

1 Timothy 1:4

to stop devoting themselves to myths and never-ending pedigrees, for such things lead to controversies rather than stimulate our trusteeship to God through faith.

1 Timothy 1:11

as measured by the glorious good news of the blessed God, with which I have been entrusted.

1 Timothy 2:7

and for which purpose I was appointed a preacher and an apostle -- I am telling the truth, I am not lying, -- a teacher of the heathen in the realm of faith and truth.