²⁴ Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the church; ²⁵ whereof I was made a minister, according to the ^[a]dispensation of God which was given me to you-ward, to fulfil the word of God, ²⁶ even the mystery which hath been hid ^[b]for ages and generations: but now hath it been manifested to his saints, ²⁷ to whom God was pleased to make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory: ²⁸ whom we proclaim, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ; ²⁹ whereunto I labor also, striving according to his working, which worketh in me ^[c]mightily.