Ephesians 3:7

Paul became a servant of this gospel by the gift and power of God's grace. It attributes his ministry entirely to God's enabling grace.

Cross-references · 20

• Eph 1:19and what is the exceeding greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to that working of the strength of his might
• Eph 3:20Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,
• 2 Cor 3:6who also made us sufficient as servants of a new covenant; not of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
• Eph 3:2if it is so that you have heard of the administration of that grace of God which was given me toward you;
• Heb 13:21make you complete in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
• Col 1:23–25if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Good News which you heard, which is being proclaimed in all creation under heaven; of which I, Paul, was made a servant.
• Col 1:29for which I also labor, striving according to his working, which works in me mightily.
• 1 Cor 3:5Who then is Apollos, and who is Paul, but servants through whom you believed; and each as the Lord gave to him?
• 1 Cor 15:10But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was given to me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
• 1 Th 2:13For this cause we also thank God without ceasing, that, when you received from us the word of the message of God, you accepted it not as the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which also works in you who believe.
• Rom 15:16that I should be a servant of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, serving as a priest of the Good News of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be made acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.
• Rom 1:5through whom we received grace and apostleship, for obedience of faith among all the nations, for his name’s sake;
• Gal 2:8(for he who appointed Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision appointed me also to the Gentiles);
• 2 Cor 4:1Therefore seeing we have this ministry, even as we obtained mercy, we don’t faint.
• 1 Tim 1:14–15The grace of our Lord abounded exceedingly with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
• Isa 43:13Yes, since the day was I am he; and there is no one who can deliver out of my hand. I will work, and who can hinder it?”
• Eph 4:16from whom all the body, being fitted and knit together through that which every joint supplies, according to the working in measure of each individual part, makes the body increase to the building up of itself in love.
• Rom 15:18–19For I will not dare to speak of any things except those which Christ worked through me, for the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed,
• Eph 3:8To me, the very least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,
• 2 Cor 10:4–5for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the throwing down of strongholds,

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