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Ephesians 3:1 KJV
Ephesians · chapter 3 · verse 1
For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles,Ephesians 3:1 · King James Version
Ephesians 3:1 in context
1For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles,
2If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward:
3How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery; (as I wrote afore in few words,
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Key words (Strong's)
- prisonerdesmiosbound, in bonds, a captive, a prisonerG1198 →
- ChristchristosChrist = " anointed" , Christ was [and is], anointedG5547 →
- causecharinin favour of, for the pleasure of, for, for the sake of, on this account, for this causeG5484 →
- JesusiēsousJesus = " Jehovah is salvation" , Jesus, the Son of God, the Saviour of mankind…G2424 →
- PaulpaulosPaul or Paulus = " small or little" , Paul was the most famous of the apostles…G3972 →
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Here we have the account which Paul gives the Ephesians concerning himself, as he was appointed by God the apostle of the Gentiles. I. We may observe that he acquaints them with the tribulations and sufferings which he endured in the discharge of that office, Eph 3:1.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-13