Ephesians 3:4

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

He said, “Go, and tell this people, ‘You hear indeed, but don’t understand. You see indeed, but don’t perceive.’

This is what Yahweh, the King of Israel, and his Redeemer, Yahweh of Armies, says: “I am the first, and I am the last; and besides me there is no God.

He said to them, “To you is given the mystery of God’s Kingdom, but to those who are outside, all things are done in parables,

For most certainly I tell you, whoever may tell this mountain, ‘Be taken up and cast into the sea,’ and doesn’t doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says is happening; he shall have whatever he says.

The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

At that time, Jesus answered, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you hid these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to infants.

for I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries will not be able to withstand or to contradict.

I am sending him to you for this very purpose, that he may know your circumstances and comfort your hearts,

His Son is the radiance of his glory, the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, who, when he had by himself purified us of our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high,

Let’s rejoice and be exceedingly glad, and let’s give the glory to him. For the wedding of the Lamb has come, and his wife has made herself ready.”

Behold, God is my salvation. I will trust, and will not be afraid; for Yah, Yahweh, is my strength and song; and he has become my salvation.”

They don’t know, neither do they consider: for he has shut their eyes, that they can’t see; and their hearts, that they can’t understand.

that ‘seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest perhaps they should turn again, and their sins should be forgiven them.’ ”

No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn’t know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you.

Now, Lord, look at their threats, and grant to your servants to speak your word with all boldness,

When they had arrived, and had gathered the assembly together, they reported all the things that God had done with them, and that he had opened a door of faith to the nations.

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But to us, God revealed them through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.

If I give away all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don’t have love, it profits me nothing.

But though I am unskilled in speech, yet I am not unskilled in knowledge. No, in every way we have been revealed to you in all things.

and to make all men see what is the administration of the mystery which for ages has been hidden in God, who created all things through Jesus Christ,

if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Good News which you heard, which is being proclaimed in all creation under heaven, of which I, Paul, was made a servant.

the mystery which has been hidden for ages and generations. But now it has been revealed to his saints,

For in him all the fullness of the Deity dwells bodily,

Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin will conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.

‘Hear this now, foolish people without understanding, who have eyes, and don’t see, who have ears, and don’t hear:

“Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and shall give birth to a son. They shall call his name Immanuel;” which is, being interpreted, “God with us.”

In them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says, ‘By hearing you will hear, and will in no way understand; Seeing you will see, and will in no way perceive:

He said to them, “Because of your unbelief. For most certainly I tell you, if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you will tell this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you.

But he said to them, “Not all men can receive this saying, but those to whom it is given.

While they were greatly perplexed about this, behold, two men stood by them in dazzling clothing.

I and the Father are one.”

“When I had returned to Jerusalem, and while I prayed in the temple, I fell into a trance,

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose.

For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the Good News—not in wisdom of words, so that the cross of Christ wouldn’t be made void.

Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

So let a man think of us as Christ’s servants, and stewards of God’s mysteries.

For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy. For I married you to one husband, that I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ.

For I didn’t receive it from man, nor was I taught it, but it came to me through revelation of Jesus Christ.

We were also assigned an inheritance in him, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who does all things after the counsel of his will,

that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him,

For it is God who works in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.

praying together for us also, that God may open to us a door for the word, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds,

holding faith and a good conscience, which some having thrust away made a shipwreck concerning the faith,

Therefore when he comes into the world, he says, “You didn’t desire sacrifice and offering, but you prepared a body for me.

As for you, the anointing which you received from him remains in you, and you don’t need for anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie, and even as it taught you, you will remain in him.

“I know your works (behold, I have set before you an open door, which no one can shut), that you have a little power, and kept my word, and didn’t deny my name.

But Yahweh has not given you a heart to know, eyes to see, and ears to hear, to this day.

For a child is born to us. A son is given to us; and the government will be on his shoulders. His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

All vision has become to you like the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one who is educated, saying, “Read this, please;” and he says, “I can’t, for it is sealed;”

Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven.

Jesus answered them, “Most certainly I tell you, if you have faith, and don’t doubt, you will not only do what was done to the fig tree, but even if you told this mountain, ‘Be taken up and cast into the sea,’ it would be done.

“He has blinded their eyes and he hardened their heart, lest they should see with their eyes, and perceive with their heart, and would turn, and I would heal them.”

But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.

how I didn’t shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, teaching you publicly and from house to house,

“He said to me, ‘Depart, for I will send you out far from here to the Gentiles.’”

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.

For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward. But if not of my own will, I have a stewardship entrusted to me.

to another faith, by the same Spirit; and to another gifts of healings, by the same Spirit;

Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,

For he who speaks in another language speaks not to men, but to God; for no one understands; but in the Spirit he speaks mysteries.

for a great and effective door has opened to me, and there are many adversaries.

Having therefore such a hope, we use great boldness of speech,

But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.

on my behalf, that utterance may be given to me in opening my mouth, to make known with boldness the mystery of the Good News,

I have sent him to you for this very purpose, that you may know our state and that he may comfort your hearts.

If therefore there is any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassion,

Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.

Brothers, pray for us.

Finally, brothers, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may spread rapidly and be glorified, even as also with you,

Without controversy, the mystery of godliness is great: God was revealed in the flesh, justified in the spirit, seen by angels, preached among the nations, believed on in the world, and received up in glory.

having been reminded of the sincere faith that is in you, which lived first in your grandmother Lois, and your mother Eunice, and, I am persuaded, in you also.

For the overseer must be blameless, as God’s steward, not self-pleasing, not easily angered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for dishonest gain;

As each has received a gift, employ it in serving one another, as good managers of the grace of God in its various forms.

He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared like a bride adorned for her husband.

He answered them, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, but it is not given to them.

He said, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of God’s Kingdom, but to the rest in parables; that ‘seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.’

If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don’t have love, I am nothing.

making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him

how that by revelation the mystery was made known to me, as I wrote before in few words,

This mystery is great, but I speak concerning Christ and of the assembly.

that their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love, and gaining all riches of the full assurance of understanding, that they may know the mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ,

holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.

He said to them, “Therefore every scribe who has been made a disciple in the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who is a householder, who brings out of his treasure new and old things.”

But now, brothers, if I come to you speaking with other languages, what would I profit you, unless I speak to you either by way of revelation, or of knowledge, or of prophesying, or of teaching?

in pureness, in knowledge, in perseverance, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in sincere love,