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 Good News of the glory of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.
• Col 1:25–27of which I was made a servant, according to the stewardship of God which was given me toward you, to fulfill the word of God,
• Rom 1:5through whom we received grace and apostleship, for obedience of faith among all the nations, for his name’s sake;
• 2 Tim 1:11For this, I was appointed as a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.
• Gal 1:15–16But when it was the good pleasure of God, who separated me from my mother’s womb, and called me through his grace,
• Eph 4:7But to each one of us was the grace given according to the measure of the gift of Christ.
• 1 Cor 4:1So let a man think of us as Christ’s servants, and stewards of God’s mysteries.
• 1 Cor 9:17–22For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward. But if not of my own will, I have a stewardship entrusted to me.
• Gal 1:13For you have heard of my way of living in time past in the Jews’ religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the assembly of God, and ravaged it.
• Eph 1:10to an administration of the fullness of the times, to sum up all things in Christ, the things in the heavens, and the things on the earth, in him;
• Acts 13:46Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly, and said, “It was necessary that God’s word should be spoken to you first. Since indeed you thrust it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we turn to the Gentiles.
• Acts 26:17–18delivering you from the people, and from the Gentiles, to whom I send you,
• Rom 15:15–16But I write the more boldly to you in part, as reminding you, because of the grace that was given to me by God,
• Acts 13:2As they served the Lord and fasted, the Holy Spirit said, “Separate Barnabas and Saul for me, for the work to which I have called them.”
• Acts 9:15But the Lord said to him, “Go your way, for he is my chosen vessel to bear my name before the nations and kings, and the children of Israel.
• Acts 22:21“He said to me, ‘Depart, for I will send you out far from here to the Gentiles.’”
• Gal 2:8–9(for he who appointed Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision appointed me also to the Gentiles);
• Eph 4:21if indeed you heard him, and were taught in him, even as truth is in Jesus:
• Rom 11:13For I speak to you who are Gentiles. Since then as I am an apostle to Gentiles, I glorify my ministry;
• Rom 12:3For I say, through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.
• Eph 3:8To me, the very least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,
• 1 Tim 2:7to which I was appointed a preacher and an apostle (I am telling the truth in Christ, not lying), a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.
• Col 1:4having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which you have toward all the saints,
• 1 Tim 1:4and not to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies, which cause disputes, rather than God’s stewardship, which is in faith —
• Col 1:6which has come to you; even as it is in all the world and is bearing fruit and growing, as it does in you also, since the day you heard and knew the grace of God in truth;

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