1Ja Pavol som sa dostal do väzenia, lebo som kázal o Božej milosti aj vám pohanom.2Iste ste už počuli, že ma touto úlohou poveril Boh.3Zmienil som sa vám o tom v jednom zo svojich listov.4Boh mi zjavil tajomstvo, že aj pohanov zahrnul do svojho plánu spasenia.5Kedysi človek nemal možnosť nazrieť do Božích plánov, teraz však Boh prostredníctvom Svätého Ducha zjavil svojim apoštolom a prorokom tajomstvo,6že aj pohania, ktorí prijali zvesť evanjelia, sú súčasťou toho istého tela a spoludedičmi všetkých Božích zasľúbení takisto ako Židia.7A mne najmenšiemu a najúbohejšiemu zo všetkých kresťanov dal Boh tú slávnu výsadu a radostnú úlohu, aby som pohanom priniesol správu o nekonečnom bohatstve, ktoré aj oni v osobe Pána Ježiša Krista získali.9A práve ja im smiem vysvetľovať, že Boh, ktorý stvoril všetko, mal už od začiatku v pláne aj spasenie pohanov.10A tak všetky vlády aj nadzemské mocnosti môžu poznať jeho dokonalú múdrosť v tom,11že celá jeho rodina – pohania aj Židia – je znova zjednotená v Kristovej cirkvi.12Preto teraz môžeme bez strachu a bez zábran pristupovať k Bohu vo viere v Ježiša Krista.13Nech vás teda nemrzí, že musím kvôli vám teraz trpieť, naopak, buďte na to hrdí.
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14Preto padám na kolená a prosím Otca,15ktorý dal život každej pozemskej i nadzemskej bytosti,16aby svojou nekonečnou mocou vnútorne posilnil a upevnil aj vás.17A modlím sa, aby Kristus žil vo vašich srdciach a aby ste boli zakorenení a upevnení v láske.18Len tak poznáte, spolu so všetkými kresťanmi, aká je Kristova láska vo svojej plnej šírke, hĺbke aj výške,19a presvedčíte sa, aká je nezmerateľná a nedosiahnuteľná. A tak nás Boh naplní sebou samým.20Chvála a vďaka buď Bohu. On veľkou mocou, ktorou pôsobí v nás, môže vykonať omnoho viac, ako sa odvážime prosiť, ba čo len snívať. Nech ho cirkev slávi po všetky časy až naveky za spasenie v Kristu Ježišovi.
English Standard Version
The Mystery of the Gospel Revealed
1For this reason I, Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles—2assuming that you have heard of the stewardship of God’s grace that was given to me for you,3how the mystery was made known to me by revelation, as I have written briefly.4When you read this, you can perceive my insight into the mystery of Christ,5which was not made known to the sons of men in other generations as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit.6This mystery is* that the Gentiles are fellow heirs, members of the same body, and partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel.7Of this gospel I was made a minister according to the gift of God’s grace, which was given me by the working of his power.8To me, though I am the very least of all the saints, this grace was given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,9and to bring to light for everyone what is the plan of the mystery hidden for ages in* God, who created all things,10so that through the church the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly places.11This was according to the eternal purpose that he has realized in Christ Jesus our Lord,12in whom we have boldness and access with confidence through our faith in him.13So I ask you not to lose heart over what I am suffering for you, which is your glory.
Prayer for Spiritual Strength
14For this reason I bow my knees before the Father,15from whom every family* in heaven and on earth is named,16that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being,17so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love,18may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth,19and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.20Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us,21to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen.
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