Parallel Verses

American Standard Version

and to make all men see what is the dispensation of the mystery which for ages hath been hid in God who created all things;

New American Standard Bible

and to bring to light what is the administration of the mystery which for ages has been hidden in God who created all things;

King James Version

And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ:

Holman Bible

and to shed light for all about the administration of the mystery hidden for ages in God who created all things.

International Standard Version

and help everyone see how this secret that has been at work was hidden for ages by God, who created all things.

A Conservative Version

and to make all men see what is the administration of the mystery hidden from the ages in God who created all things through Jesus Christ.

Amplified

and to make plain [to everyone] the plan of the mystery [regarding the uniting of believing Jews and Gentiles into one body] which [until now] was kept hidden through the ages in [the mind of] God who created all things.

An Understandable Version

[I was given the responsibility] to enlighten all people regarding the working out of God's secret plan, which has been kept hidden for ages in [the heart of] God, who created everything.

Anderson New Testament

and enlighten all men with respect to the plan of the mystery, which was concealed from the ages in God, who created all things;

Bible in Basic English

And make all men see what is the ordering of the secret which from the first has been kept in God who made all things;

Common New Testament

and to make plain to everyone the administration of the mystery which for ages has been hidden in God who created all things;

Daniel Mace New Testament

and display to all the world that mysterious dispensation, which from all past ages has been conceal'd in the secret purpose of God, who created all things:

Darby Translation

and to enlighten all with the knowledge of what is the administration of the mystery hidden throughout the ages in God, who has created all things,

Goodspeed New Testament

and making clear how the secret purpose is to be worked out which has been hidden away for ages in God the creator of all things,

John Wesley New Testament

And to let all men see, what is the fellowship of the mystery, which was hidden from the beginning of the world by God, who created all things by Jesus Christ:

Julia Smith Translation

And to enlighten all what the distribution of the mystery, concealed from times immemorial in God, having created all things by Jesus Christ:

King James 2000

And to make all men see what is the plan of the mystery, which from the beginning of the ages has been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ:

Lexham Expanded Bible

and to enlighten everyone [as to] what [is] the administration of the mystery hidden from the ages by God, who created all [things],

Modern King James verseion

and to bring to light what is the fellowship of the mystery which from eternity has been hidden in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ;

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

and to make all men see what the fellowship of the mystery is, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, which made all things through Jesus Christ,

Moffatt New Testament

and enlighten all men upon the new order of that divine secret which God the Creator of all concealed from eternity ??10 intending to let the full sweep of the divine wisdom be disclosed now by the church to the angelic Rulers and Authorities in the heavenly sphere,

Montgomery New Testament

and should make all men see the new dispensation of that secret purpose, hidden from eternity in the God who founded the universe,

NET Bible

and to enlighten everyone about God's secret plan -- a secret that has been hidden for ages in God who has created all things.

New Heart English Bible

and to make all men see what is the administration of the mystery which for ages has been hidden in God, who created all things;

Noyes New Testament

to make all men see what is the dispensation of the mystery, which hath been hidden for ages in God, who created all things;

Sawyer New Testament

and to enlighten all men as to the dispensation of the mystery concealed from eternity in God who created all things,

The Emphasized Bible

And to bring to light - what is the administration of the sacred secret which had been hidden away from the ages in God, who did all things create:

Thomas Haweis New Testament

and to make all men see what the communication of that mystery means, which was hid from the beginning in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ:

Twentieth Century New Testament

And to make clear what is God's way of working out that hidden purpose which from the first has been concealed in the mind of the Creator of all things;

Webster

And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ:

Weymouth New Testament

and to show all men in a clear light what my stewardship is. It is the stewardship of the truth which from all the Ages lay concealed in the mind of God, the Creator of all things--

Williams New Testament

and to make clear how is to be carried out the trusteeship of this secret which has for ages been hidden away in God, the Creator of all things,

World English Bible

and to make all men see what is the administration of the mystery which for ages has been hidden in God, who created all things through Jesus Christ;

Worrell New Testament

and to plainly show what is the dispensation of the mystery which from the ages has been hidden away in God, Who made all things;

Worsley New Testament

and make all men to see the communication of the mystery, which from the ages past hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ;

Youngs Literal Translation

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,

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
And

and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
Usage: 0

to make
φωτίζω 
Photizo 
Usage: 10

all
πᾶς 
Pas 
Usage: 704

φωτίζω 
Photizo 
Usage: 10

τίς 
Tis 
Usage: 344

is the fellowship
κοινωνία 
Koinonia 
Usage: 20

of the mystery
μυστήριον 
Musterion 
Usage: 23


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

ἀπό 
Apo 
from, of, out of, for, off, by, at, in, since 9, on, not tr., .
Usage: 490

the beginning of the world
αἰών 
Aion 
Usage: 101

ἀποκρύπτω 
Apokrupto 
Usage: 3

in
ἐν 
En 
in, by, with, among, at, on, through,
Usage: 2128

God
θεός 
theos 
Usage: 1151

who

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

κτίζω 
Ktizo 
Usage: 13

πᾶς 
Pas 
Usage: 704

by
διά 
Dia 
by, through, with, for, for ... sake, therefore , for this cause , because,
Usage: 527

Ἰησοῦς 
Iesous 
Usage: 969

References

Morish

Watsons

Images Ephesians 3:9

Prayers for Ephesians 3:9

Context Readings

The Mystery Of Christ Revealed

8 Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach unto the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ; 9 and to make all men see what is the dispensation of the mystery which for ages hath been hid in God who created all things; 10 to the intent that now unto the principalities and the powers in the heavenly places might be made known through the church the manifold wisdom of God,


Cross References

Colossians 1:26

even the mystery which hath been hid for ages and generations: but now hath it been manifested to his saints,

Colossians 3:3

For ye died, and your life is hid with Christ in God.

Psalm 33:6

By the word of Jehovah were the heavens made, And all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.

Isaiah 44:24

Thus saith Jehovah, thy Redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb: I am Jehovah, that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth (who is with me?);

Matthew 10:27

What I tell you in the darkness, speak ye in the light; and what ye hear in the ear, proclaim upon the house-tops.

Matthew 13:35

that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world.

Matthew 25:34

Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:

Matthew 28:19

Go ye therefore, and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them into the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit:

Mark 16:15-16

And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to the whole creation.

Luke 24:47

and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name unto all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem.

John 1:1-3

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

John 5:17

But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh even until now, and I work.

John 5:19

Jesus therefore answered and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father doing: for what things soever he doeth, these the Son also doeth in like manner.

John 10:30

I and the Father are one.

Acts 15:18

Saith the Lord, who maketh these things known from of old.

Romans 16:25-26

Now to him that is able to establish you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery which hath been kept in silence through times eternal,

1 Corinthians 2:7

but we speak God's wisdom in a mystery, even the wisdom that hath been hidden, which God foreordained before the worlds unto our glory:

Ephesians 1:4

even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blemish before him in love:

Ephesians 1:9-10

making known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him

Ephesians 3:3-5

how that by revelation was made known unto me the mystery, as I wrote before in few words,

Colossians 1:16-17

for in him were all things created, in the heavens and upon the earth, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers; all things have been created through him, and unto him;

Colossians 1:23

if so be that ye continue in the faith, grounded and stedfast, and not moved away from the hope of the gospel which ye heard, which was preached in all creation under heaven; whereof I Paul was made a minister.

2 Thessalonians 2:13

But we are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, for that God chose you from the beginning unto salvation in sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:

1 Timothy 3:16

And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness; He who was manifested in the flesh, Justified in the spirit, Seen of angels, Preached among the nations, Believed on in the world, Received up in glory.

2 Timothy 1:9

who saved us, and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,

2 Timothy 4:17

But the Lord stood by me, and strengthened me; that through me the message might me fully proclaimed, and that all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.

Titus 1:2

in hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before times eternal;

Hebrews 1:2-3

hath at the end of these days spoken unto us in his'son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made the worlds;

Hebrews 3:3-4

For he hath been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, by so much as he that built the house hath more honor than the house.

1 Peter 1:20

who was foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but was manifested at the end of times for your sake,

Revelation 4:11

Worthy art thou, our Lord and our God, to receive the glory and the honor and the power: for thou didst create all things, and because of thy will they were, and were created.

Revelation 13:8

And all that dwell on the earth shall worship him, every one whose name hath not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb that hath been slain.

Revelation 14:6

And I saw another angel flying in mid heaven, having eternal good tidings to proclaim unto them that dwell on the earth, and unto every nation and tribe and tongue and people;

Revelation 17:8

The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and is about to come up out of the abyss, and to go into perdition. And they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, they whose name hath not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast, how that he was, and is not, and shall come.

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