Ephesians 3:2

Paul refers to the stewardship of God's grace given to him for the Gentiles. It points to his divinely entrusted apostolic mission.

Cross-references · 25

• 1 Tim 1:11According to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.
• Col 1:25–27Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God;
• Rom 1:5By whom we have received grace and apostleship, for obedience to the faith among all nations, for his name:
• 2 Tim 1:11Whereunto I am appointed a preacher, and an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.
• Gal 1:15–16But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb, and called me by his grace,
• Eph 4:7But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ.
• 1 Cor 4:1Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.
• 1 Cor 9:17–22For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation of the gospel is committed unto me.
• Gal 1:13For ye have heard of my conversation in time past in the Jews’ religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and wasted it:
• Eph 1:10That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him:
• Acts 13:46Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you: but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles.
• Acts 26:17–18Delivering thee from the people, and from the Gentiles, unto whom now I send thee,
• Rom 15:15–16Nevertheless, brethren, I have written the more boldly unto you in some sort, as putting you in mind, because of the grace that is given to me of God,
• Acts 13:2As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them.
• Acts 9:15But the Lord said unto him, Go thy way: for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel:
• Acts 22:21And he said unto me, Depart: for I will send thee far hence unto the Gentiles.
• Gal 2:8–9(For he that wrought effectually in Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision, the same was mighty in me toward the Gentiles:)
• Eph 4:21If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus:
• Rom 11:13For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office:
• Rom 12:3For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.
• Eph 3:8Unto 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;
• 1 Tim 2:7Whereunto I am ordained a preacher, and an apostle, (I speak the truth in Christ, and lie not;) a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and verity.
• Col 1:4Since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which ye have to all the saints,
• 1 Tim 1:4Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith: so do.
• Col 1:6Which is come unto you, as it is in all the world; and bringeth forth fruit, as it doth also in you, since the day ye heard of it, and knew the grace of God in truth:

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