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

And it happened, when I returned to Jerusalem and was praying in the temple, that I was in a trance

Then He said to me, Depart, for I will send you far from here to the Gentiles.

Then there arose a loud outcry. And the scribes of the Pharisees' party arose and protested, saying, We find no evil in this man; but if a spirit or an angel has spoken to him, let us not fight against God.

So I said, Who are You, Sir? And He said, I am Jesus, whom you persecute.

I will deliver you from the Jewish people, as well as from the Gentiles, to whom I now send you,

Therefore, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the Heavenly vision,

But as it is written: Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor has it dawned upon the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those who love Him.

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

For I neither received it from man, nor was I taught it, but by a revelation of Jesus Christ.

to reveal His Son in me, that I might preach Him among the Gentiles, immediately I did not confer with flesh and blood,

Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to inquire of Peter, and remained with him fifteen days.

and to make all see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the ages has been hidden in God who created all things through Jesus Christ;

For I do not desire, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, that you not be wise within yourselves, that hardness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles comes in.

Now to Him who is able to establish you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery kept silent since the world began,

the mystery which has been hidden from ages and from generations, but now has been revealed to His saints.

To them God willed to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles: which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

having made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure which He purposed in Himself,

In Him also we have been assigned to an inheritance, being predestined according to the purpose of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His will,

Therefore remember that you, being Gentiles in the flesh; who are called uncircumcision by what is called the circumcision made in the flesh by hands;

But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been made near by the blood of Christ.

having abolished in His flesh the enmity, that is, the Law of commandments contained in ordinances, that He might create in Himself one new man from the two, thus making peace,

And He came and preached peace to you who were afar off and to those who were near.

Now, therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God,

in whom the whole building, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord,