Ephesians

保罗奉差向外邦人传福音

1因此，我—保罗为你们外邦人作了基督耶稣被囚的，替你们祈祷。

2谅必你们曾听见 神赐恩给我，将关切你们的职分托付我，

3用启示使我知道福音的奥秘，正如我以前略略写过的。

4你们念了，就能晓得我深知基督的奥秘。

5这奥秘在以前的世代没有叫人知道，像如今借着圣灵启示他的圣使徒和先知一样。

6这奥秘就是外邦人在基督耶稣里，借着福音，得以同为后嗣，同为一体，同蒙应许。

7我作了这福音的执事，是照 神的恩赐，这恩赐是照他运行的大能赐给我的。

8我本来比众圣徒中最小的还小，然而他还赐我这恩典，叫我把基督那测不透的丰富传给外邦人，

9又使众人都明白，这历代以来隐藏在创造万物之 神里的奥秘是如何安排的，

10为要借着教会使天上执政的、掌权的，现在得知 神百般的智慧。

11这是照 神从万世以前，在我们主基督耶稣里所定的旨意。

12我们因信耶稣，就在他里面放胆无惧，笃信不疑地来到 神面前。

13所以，我求你们不要因我为你们所受的患难丧胆，这原是你们的荣耀。

明白基督的爱

14因此，我在父面前屈膝，（

15天上地上的各家，都是从他得名。）

16求他按着他丰盛的荣耀，借着他的灵，叫你们心里的力量刚强起来，

17使基督因你们的信，住在你们心里，叫你们的爱心有根有基，

18能以和众圣徒一同明白基督的爱是何等长阔高深，

19并知道这爱是过于人所能测度的，便叫 神一切所充满的，充满了你们。

20神能照着运行在我们心里的大力充充足足地成就一切，超过我们所求所想的。

21但愿他在教会中，并在基督耶稣里，得着荣耀，直到世世代代，永永远远。阿们！

1For this cause, I Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for you the nations,

2if, indeed, ye did hear of the dispensation of the grace of God that was given to me in regard to you,

3that by revelation He made known to me the secret, according as I wrote before in few [words] —

4in regard to which ye are able, reading [it], to understand my knowledge in the secret of the Christ,

5which 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 —

6that the nations be fellow-heirs, and of the same body, and partakers of His promise in the Christ, through the good news,

7of 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;

8to me — the less than the least of all the saints — was given this grace, among the nations to proclaim good news — the untraceable riches of the Christ,

9and to cause all to see what [is] the fellowship of the secret that hath been hid from the ages in God, who the all things did create by Jesus Christ,

10that there might be made known now to the principalities and the authorities in the heavenly [places], through the assembly, the manifold wisdom of God,

11according to a purpose of the ages, which He made in Christ Jesus our Lord,

12in whom we have the freedom and the access in confidence through the faith of him,

13wherefore, I ask [you] not to faint in my tribulations for you, which is your glory.

14For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,

15of whom the whole family in the heavens and on earth is named,

16that He may give to you, according to the riches of His glory, with might to be strengthened through His Spirit, in regard to the inner man,

17that the Christ may dwell through the faith in your hearts, in love having been rooted and founded,

18that ye may be in strength to comprehend, with all the saints, what [is] the breadth, and length, and depth, and height,

19to know also the love of the Christ that is exceeding the knowledge, that ye may be filled — to all the fulness of God;

20and to Him who is able above all things to do exceeding abundantly what we ask or think, according to the power that is working in us,

21to Him [is] the glory in the assembly in Christ Jesus, to all the generations of the age of the ages. Amen.