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This is why I, Paul, am in jail for Christ, having taken up the cause of you outsiders, so-called. I take it that you’re familiar with the part I was given in God’s plan for including everybody. I got the inside story on this from God himself, as I just wrote you in brief.

This is my life work: helping people understand and respond to this Message. It came as a sheer gift to me, a real surprise, God handling all the details. When it came to presenting the Message to people who had no background in God’s way, I was the least qualified of any of the available Christians. God saw to it that I was equipped, but you can be sure that it had nothing to do with my natural abilities.

For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles

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

For this reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for the sake of you Gentiles

To me, the very least of all saints, this grace was given, to preach to the Gentiles the unfathomable riches of Christ

So I, Paul, am a prisoner of Christ Jesus for you who are not Jews.

I am the least important of all God’s people, but God gave me this gift—to tell those who are not Jews the Good News about the riches of Christ, which are too great to understand fully.

For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus in behalf of you Gentiles,

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

For this reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for the sake of you Gentiles

Although I am less than the least of all the Lord’s people, this grace was given me: to preach to the Gentiles the boundless riches of Christ

For this reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for you Gentiles

To me, who am less than the least of all the saints, this grace was given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ

For this reason [because I preach that you and believing Jews are joint heirs] I, Paul, am the prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles

To me, [though I am] the very least of all the saints (God’s people), this grace [which is undeserved] was graciously given, to proclaim to the Gentiles the good news of the incomprehensible riches of Christ [that spiritual wealth which no one can fully understand]

When I think of all this, I, Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus for the benefit of you Gentiles . . .

Though I am the least deserving of all God’s people, he graciously gave me the privilege of telling the Gentiles about the endless treasures available to them in Christ.

Beloved friends, because of my love for Jesus Christ, I am now his prisoner for the sake of all of you who are not Jews

I have been made a messenger of this wonderful news by the gift of grace that works through me. Even though I am the least significant of all his holy believers, this grace-gift was imparted when the manifestation of his power came upon me. Grace alone empowers me so that I can boldly preach this wonderful message to non-Jewish people, sharing with them the unfading, inexhaustible riches of Christ, which are beyond comprehension.

For this reason I, Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles

To me, though I am the very least of all the saints, this grace was given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ