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    "language": "en",
    "book": "ephesians",
    "chapter": 3
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    "n": 3,
    "bookSlug": "ephesians",
    "bookCode": "EPH",
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    "title": "",
    "translation": null,
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    "paragraphs": [{
        "n": 1,
        "refId": "EPH-3:1",
        "verseRef": "EPH.3.1",
        "text": "For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus in behalf of you Gentiles,--"
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "EPH-3:2",
        "verseRef": "EPH.3.2",
        "text": "if so be that ye have heard of the dispensation of that grace of God which was given me to you-ward;"
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "EPH-3:3",
        "verseRef": "EPH.3.3",
        "text": "how that by revelation was made known unto me the mystery, as I wrote before in few words,"
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "EPH-3:4",
        "verseRef": "EPH.3.4",
        "text": "whereby, when ye read, ye can perceive my understanding in the mystery of Christ;"
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "EPH-3:5",
        "verseRef": "EPH.3.5",
        "text": "which in other generation was not made known unto the sons of men, as it hath now been revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets in the Spirit;"
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "EPH-3:6",
        "verseRef": "EPH.3.6",
        "text": "[to wit], that the Gentiles are fellow-heirs, and fellow-members of the body, and fellow-partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel,"
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "EPH-3:7",
        "verseRef": "EPH.3.7",
        "text": "whereof I was made a minister, according to the gift of that grace of God which was given me according to the working of his power."
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "EPH-3:8",
        "verseRef": "EPH.3.8",
        "text": "Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach unto the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ;"
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "EPH-3:9",
        "verseRef": "EPH.3.9",
        "text": "and to make all men see what is the dispensation of the mystery which for ages hath been hid in God who created all things;"
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "EPH-3:10",
        "verseRef": "EPH.3.10",
        "text": "to the intent that now unto the principalities and the powers in the heavenly [places] might be made known through the church the manifold wisdom of God,"
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "EPH-3:11",
        "verseRef": "EPH.3.11",
        "text": "according to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord:"
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "EPH-3:12",
        "verseRef": "EPH.3.12",
        "text": "in whom we have boldness and access in confidence through our faith in him."
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "EPH-3:13",
        "verseRef": "EPH.3.13",
        "text": "Wherefore I ask that ye may not faint at my tribulations for you, which are your glory."
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "EPH-3:14",
        "verseRef": "EPH.3.14",
        "text": "For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father,"
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "EPH-3:15",
        "verseRef": "EPH.3.15",
        "text": "from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named,"
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "EPH-3:16",
        "verseRef": "EPH.3.16",
        "text": "that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, that ye may be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inward man;"
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "EPH-3:17",
        "verseRef": "EPH.3.17",
        "text": "that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; to the end that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,"
      },{
        "n": 18,
        "refId": "EPH-3:18",
        "verseRef": "EPH.3.18",
        "text": "may be strong to apprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth,"
      },{
        "n": 19,
        "refId": "EPH-3:19",
        "verseRef": "EPH.3.19",
        "text": "and to know the love of Christ which passeth knowledge, that ye may be filled unto all the fulness of God."
      },{
        "n": 20,
        "refId": "EPH-3:20",
        "verseRef": "EPH.3.20",
        "text": "Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,"
      },{
        "n": 21,
        "refId": "EPH-3:21",
        "verseRef": "EPH.3.21",
        "text": "unto him [be] the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus unto all generations for ever and ever. Amen."
      }
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