Ephesians 3:2
Good News Translation
Surely you have heard that God in his grace has given me this work to do for your good.

New Revised Standard Version
for surely you have already heard of the commission of God’s grace that was given me for you,

Contemporary English Version
You have surely heard about God's gift of undeserved grace in choosing me to help you.

New American Bible
if, as I suppose, you have heard of the stewardship of God’s grace that was given to me for your benefit,

Douay-Rheims Bible
If yet you have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me towards you:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

If yet you have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me towards you:

ye.

Ephesians 4:21 If so be that you have heard him and have been taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus:

Galatians 1:13 For you 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.

Colossians 1:4,6 Hearing your faith in Christ Jesus and the love which you have towards all the saints. . . .

2 Timothy 1:11 Wherein I am appointed a preacher and an apostle and teacher of the Gentiles.

the dispensation.

Ephesians 3:8 To me, the least of all the saints, is given this grace, to preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ:

Ephesians 4:7 But to every one of us is given grace, according to the measure of the giving of Christ.

Acts 9:15 And the Lord said to him: Go thy way: for this man is to me a vessel of election, to carry my name before the Gentiles and kings and the children of Israel.

Acts 13:2,46 And as they were ministering to the Lord and fasting, the Holy Ghost said to them: Separate me Saul and Barnabas, for the work whereunto I have taken them. . . .

Acts 22:21 And he said to me: Go, for unto the Gentiles afar off will I send thee.

Acts 26:17,18 Delivering thee from the people and from the nations unto which now I send thee: . . .

Romans 1:5 By whom we have received grace and apostleship for obedience to the faith, in all nations, for his name:

Romans 11:13 For I say to you, Gentiles: As long indeed as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I will honour my ministry,

Romans 12:3 For I say, by the grace that is given me, to all that are among you, not to be more wise than it behoveth to be wise, but to be wise unto sobriety and according as God hath divided to every one the measure of faith.

Romans 15:15,16 But I have written to you, brethren, more boldly in some sort, as it were putting you in mind, because of the grace which is given me from God, . . .

1 Corinthians 4:1 Let a man so account of us as of the ministers of Christ and the dispensers of the mysteries of God.

1 Corinthians 9:17-22 For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation is committed to me. . . .

Galatians 1:15,16 But when it pleased him who separated me from my mother's womb and called me by his grace, . . .

Galatians 2:8,9 (For he who wrought in Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision wrought in me also among the Gentiles.) . . .

Colossians 1:25-27 Whereof I am made a minister according to the dispensation of God, which is given me towards you, that I may fulfil the word of God: . . .

1 Timothy 1:11 Which is according to the gospel of the glory of the blessed God which hath been committed to my trust.

1 Timothy 2:7 Whereunto I am appointed a preacher and an apostle (I say the truth, I lie not), a doctor of the Gentiles in faith and truth.

2 Timothy 1:11 Wherein I am appointed a preacher and an apostle and teacher of the Gentiles.

Context
The Mystery of the Gospel
1For this cause, I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ, for you Gentiles: 2If yet you have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me towards you: 3How that, according to revelation, the mystery has been made known to me, as I have written above in a few words:…
Cross References
1 Corinthians 9:17
For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation is committed to me.

Ephesians 1:10
In the dispensation of the fulness of times, to re-establish all things in Christ, that are in heaven and on earth, in him.

Ephesians 3:7
Of which I am made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God, which is given to me according to the operation of his power.

Ephesians 3:9
And to enlighten all men, that they may see what is the dispensation of the mystery which hath been hidden from eternity in God who created all things:

Ephesians 4:7
But to every one of us is given grace, according to the measure of the giving of Christ.

Colossians 1:25
Whereof I am made a minister according to the dispensation of God, which is given me towards you, that I may fulfil the word of God:

1 Timothy 1:4
Not to give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which furnish questions rather than the edification of God which is in faith.

Ephesians 3:1
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