1 So I, Paul, am a prisoner of Christ Jesus. I am a prisoner for you who are not Jews.
2 Surely you know that God gave me this work to tell you about his grace.
3 God let me know his secret plan. He showed it to me. I have already written a little about this.
4 And if you read what I wrote, then you can see that I truly understand the secret truth about the Christ.
5 People who lived in other times were not told that secret truth. But now, through the Spirit, God has shown that secret truth to his holy apostles and prophets.
6 This is that secret truth: that the non-Jews will receive what God has for his people, just as the Jews will. The non-Jews are together with the Jews as part of the same body. And they share together in the promise that God made in Christ Jesus. The non-Jews have all of this because of the Good News.
7 By God’s special gift of grace, I became a servant to tell that Good News. God gave me that grace through his power.