3:1
    [kjv]  For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles,
    [bbe]  For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for you Gentiles,
3:2  
    [kjv]  If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward:
    [bbe]  If that ordering of the grace of God has come to your knowledge, which was given to me for you,
3:3  
    [kjv]  How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery; (as I wrote afore in few words,
    [bbe]  How by revelation the secret was made clear to me, as I said before in a short letter,
3:4  
    [kjv]  Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ)
    [bbe]  By the reading of which you will be clear about my knowledge of the secret of Christ;
3:5
    [kjv]  Which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men, as it is now revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit;
    [bbe]  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;
3:6
    [kjv]  That the Gentiles should be fellowheirs, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel:
    [bbe]  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,
3:7 
    [kjv]  Whereof I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God given unto me by the effectual working of his power.
    [bbe]  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.
3:8  
    [kjv]  Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ;
    [bbe]  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:
3:9
    [kjv]  And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ:
    [bbe]  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;
3:10  
    [kjv]  To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God,
    [bbe]  So that now to the rulers and the............