¹保罗把福音传给外族人

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

²想必你们听过　神恩惠的计划，他为你们的缘故赐恩给我，

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

³借着启示使我可以知道这奥秘，就像我以前在信中略略提过的。

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

⁴你们读了，就可以知道我深深地明白基督的奥秘。

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

⁵这奥秘在以前的世代并没有让世人知道，不像现在借着圣灵启示了圣使徒和先知那样。

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 —

⁶这奥秘就是外族人在基督耶稣里，借着福音可以同作后嗣，同为一体，同蒙应许。

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

⁷我作了福音的仆役，是照着　神的恩赐；这恩赐是按着他大能的作为赐给我的。

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;

⁸我本来比圣徒中最小的还小，　神还是赐给我这恩典，要我把基督那测不透的丰富传给外族人，

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,

⁹并且使众人明白那奥秘的救世计划是什么（这奥秘是历代以来隐藏在创造万有的　神里面的），

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,

¹⁰为了要使天上执政的和掌权的，现在借着教会都可以知道　神各样的智慧。

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,

¹¹这都是照着　神在我们主基督耶稣里所成就的永恒的旨意。

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

¹²我们因信基督，就在他里面坦然无惧，满有把握地进到　神面前。

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

¹³因此，我恳求你们，不要因着我为你们所受的苦难而沮丧，这原是你们的光荣。

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

¹⁴基督的爱多么长阔高深因此，我在父面前屈膝，

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

¹⁵（天上地上所有的家族都是由他命名的，）

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

¹⁶求他按着他荣耀的丰盛，借着他的灵，用大能使你们内在的人刚强起来，

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,

¹⁷使基督借着你们的信，住在你们心里，使你们既然在爱中扎根建基，

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

¹⁸就能和众圣徒一同领悟基督的爱是多么的长阔高深，

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

¹⁹并且知道他的爱是超过人所能理解的，使你们被充满，得着　神的一切丰盛。

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

²⁰愿荣耀归给　神，就是归给那能照着运行在我们里面的大能，充充足足地成就一切，超过我们所求所想的。

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,

²¹愿荣耀在教会中和基督耶稣里归给他，直到万代，永世无穷。阿们。

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