1. For this reason I Paul, prisoner of the Christ Jesus for you nations,
2. (if indeed ye have heard of the administration of the grace of God which has been given to me towards you,
3. that by revelation the mystery has been made known to me, (according as I have written before briefly,
4. by which, in reading it, ye can understand my intelligence in the mystery of the Christ,)
5. which in other generations has not been made known to the sons of men, as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets in the power of the Spirit,