1. For this cause, I Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for you the nations,
2. if, indeed, ye did hear of the dispensation of the grace of God that was given to me in regard to you,
3. that by revelation He made known to me the secret, according as I wrote before in few [words] --
4. in regard to which ye are able, reading [it], to understand my knowledge in the secret of the Christ,
5. which in other generations was not made known to the sons of men, as it was now revealed to His holy apostles and prophets in the Spirit--
6. that the nations be fellow-heirs, and of the same body, and partakers of His promise in the Christ, through the good news,
7. of which I became a ministrant, according to the gift of the grace of God that was given to me, according to the working of His power;