^{3 Ref} How by revelation the secret was made clear to me, as I said before in a short letter,

^{4 Ref} By the reading of which you will be clear about my knowledge of the secret of Christ;

^{5 Ref} Which in other generations was not given to the sons of men, but the revelation of it has now been made to his holy Apostles and prophets in the Spirit;

^{6 Ref} Which is that the Gentiles have a part in the heritage, and in the same body, and in the same hope in Christ through the good news,

^{7 Ref} Of which I was made a preacher, through that grace of God which was given to me in the measure of the working of his power.

^{8 Ref} To me, who am less than the least of all the saints, was this grace given, so that I might make clear to the Gentiles the good news of the unending wealth of Christ:

^{9 Ref} And make all men see what is the ordering of the secret which from the first has been kept in God who made all things;