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Ephesians 3- Easy-To-Read Version (ERV)

October 7
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Paul's Work for the Gentiles
3 1So I (Paul) am a prisoner of Christ Jesus. I am a prisoner for you people who
are not Jews. 2Surely you know that God gave me this work through his grace (kindness).
God gave me this work to help you. 3God let me know his secret plan. He showed it
to me. I have already written a little about this. 4And if you read these things
I wrote, then you can see that I truly understand the secret truth about the Christ.
5People who lived in other times were not told that secret truth. But now, through
the Spirit,* God has shown that secret truth to his holy apostles* and prophets.*
6This is that secret truth: that the non-Jews will get the things God has for his
people, the same as the Jews. The non-Jews are together with the Jews in the same
body. And they share together in the promise that God made in Christ Jesus. The
non-Jews have all these things because of the Good News.* 7By God's special gift
of grace (kindness), I became a servant to tell that Good News.* God gave me that
grace by using his power. 8I am the least important of all of God's people. But
God gave me this gift--to tell the non-Jewish people the Good News about the riches
Christ has. Those riches are too great to understand fully. 9And God gave me the
work of telling all people about the plan for God's secret truth. That secret truth
has been hidden in God since the beginning of time. God is the One who created everything.
10God's purpose was that all the rulers and powers in the heavenly places will now
know the many different ways God shows his wisdom. They will know this because of
the church.* 11This agrees with the plan God had since the beginning of time. God
did what he planned. He did it through Christ Jesus our Lord. 12In Christ we can
come before God with freedom and without fear. We can do this through faith in
Christ. 13So I ask you not to become discouraged [and lose hope] because of the
sufferings I am having for you. My sufferings bring honor to you.

The Love of Christ
14So I bow in prayer before the Father. 15Every family in heaven and on earth gets
its true name from him. 16I ask the Father with his great glory to give you the
power to be strong in your spirits. He will give you that strength through his Spirit.*
17I pray that Christ will live in your hearts because of your faith. I pray that
your life will be strong in love and be built on love. 18And I pray that you and
all God's holy people* will have the power to understand the greatness of Christ's
love. I pray that you can understand how wide and how long and how high and how
deep that love is. 19Christ's love is greater than any person can ever know. But
I pray that you will be able to know that love. Then you can be filled with the
fullness of God. 20With God's power working in us, God can do much, much more than
anything we can ask or think of. 21To him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus
for all time, forever and ever. Amen.
Footnotes: Spirit, Holy Spirit Also called the Spirit of God, the Spirit of Christ,
and the Comforter. Joined with God and Christ, He does God's work among people in
the world. apostles The men Jesus chose to represent him in a special way. prophets
People that spoke for God. Good News The news that God has made a way for people
to have their sins forgiven and live with him forever. church God's church--his
people in Christ. holy people God's people are called holy because they are made
pure through Christ and belong only to God.

"Taken from the HOLY BIBLE: EASY-TO-READ VERSION © 2001 by World Bible Translation
Center, Inc. and used by permission."
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