² If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward:

²⁵ Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God;

²⁶ Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints:

²⁷ To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:

¹¹ According to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.

¹¹ Whereunto I am appointed a preacher, and an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.

¹⁵ But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace,

¹⁶ To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood:

⁵ By whom we have received grace and apostleship, for obedience to the faith among all nations, for his name:

⁷ But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ.

4 Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.

¹⁰ That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him:

¹³ For ye have heard of my conversation in time past in the Jews' religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and wasted it: