Ephesians 3:2
If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward:
KJV
εἴγε ἠκούσατε τὴν οἰκονομίαν τῆς χάριτος τοῦ θεοῦ τῆς δοθείσης μοι εἰς ὑμᾶς,
Greek NT
si tamen audistis dispensationem gratiæ Dei, quæ data est mihi in vobis :
Vulgate
if so be that ye have heard of the dispensation of that grace of God which was given me to you-ward;
ASV
If yet you have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me towards you:
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
10 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
δίδωμι
didomi
verb · 414×
εἰς
eis
preposition · 1769×
εἴγε
eige
conditional · 5×
θεός
theos
noun · 1311×
οἰκονομία
oikonomia
noun · 9×
χάρις
charis
noun · 155×
ἀκούω
akouo
verb · 427×
ἐγώ
ego
pronoun · 1720×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
ὑμεῖς
umeis
pronoun · 1828×
Historic Christian voices
3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- 1Cor 4:1 — Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.
- 1Cor 9:17 — For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation of the gospel is committed unto me.
- 1Tim 1:11 — According to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.
- 2Tim 1:11 — Whereunto I am appointed a preacher, and an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.
- Acts 9:15 — But 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 13:2 — As 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 13:46 — Then 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 lif
- Acts 22:21 — And he said unto me, Depart: for I will send thee far hence unto the Gentiles.
- Acts 26:17 — Delivering thee from the people, and from the Gentiles, unto whom now I send thee,
- Col 1:6 — Which 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:
- Col 1:25 — Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God;
- Col 1:25 — Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God;
- Eph 1:10 — That 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:
- Eph 3:7 — 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.
- Eph 4:7 — But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ.
- Eph 4:7 — But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ.
- Gal 1:13 — For 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:
- Gal 1:15 — But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb, and called me by his grace,
- John 17:8 — For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me.
- Rom 1:5 — By whom we have received grace and apostleship, for obedience to the faith among all nations, for his name:
- Rom 15:15 — Nevertheless, 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,