1I am Paul. And I’m in jail. You see, you mob are not Jews, and the bosses didn’t like me telling the message about Jesus to people that are not Jews. So they put me in jail.
2I know you heard about what God did. He is very good to you, and he picked me to tell you his message.
3God showed me something that nobody else knew. He told me what he is doing, so I wrote some words about it.
4When you read those words you will be able to understand that I know that secret about Christ.
5God didn’t show that secret to the people that lived before me. But now God picked some of his special messengers and teachers, and other people that tell God’s messages, and his spirit has told them that secret message.
6That secret message is this, God will give good things to the people that believe his good news about Jesus. It doesn’t matter if they are Jews, or not Jews. God saves them both, if they believe in Jesus, just like he promised. They both belong to the same mob now. They both belong to God, like arms and legs belong to the same body.
7God was really good to me. He used his power to help me to be strong. Then he gave me this special job. I have to tell people this good news about Jesus.
8I’m not important. All of God’s people are more important than me. But God was good to me and gave me this special job. He sent me to tell the people that are not Jews about the really great things that Jesus Christ can give them. These things are so great nobody can understand them properly. Jesus Christ is very rich, and he can give us these good things.
9And God sent me to help everyone to understand that secret message. A long time ago when God made everything he didn’t tell anyone that story. He kept it secret at that time.
10But now God wants to use his church people to tell everyone that message, to show everyone that God understands all about everything. He wants them to show this to the bad spirit bosses everywhere, even those in the sky.
11God always wanted to save everybody, and he sent our leader, Jesus Christ, to do it.
12We trust in Jesus and we are joined to him, so we can come to God, and we can be sure that he will listen to us. We don’t have to be afraid of him.
13So when some people make trouble for me, don’t let that bother you. I tell you God’s word, and they don’t like it, so they make trouble for me. But don’t worry. I want you to be strong. You can always feel happy whenever they make trouble for me.
14When I think about all this, all the things that our Father has done, I get down on my knees and pray to him.
15He made everything in the world, and everything in heaven, and he put every family here too.
16He is very great, so he can work powerfully in you. I pray that he will do that. I pray that his spirit will make your spirits strong, inside yourselves.
17I pray that you will trust Jesus Christ properly, so that he will live inside you. I pray that you will know that God loves you a lot. This will keep you standing strong for him, like the roots of a tree keep it standing up strong.
18I pray for you, and for all God’s people. I pray that you will know how much Jesus Christ loves us. He loves us so much that nobody can properly know all about it. But I want you to understand that he loves everybody very much, so that you will become like him in the way you live. I want your lives to be filled up with God.
20We have to thank God now. His power works in us and he does really great things. He can do a lot more than we can ask him for. He can do more than we can even think about. And we are God’s people. We are his church. So we always have to praise God and show everyone that he is very great and good. We have to show them what Jesus Christ does, and that he is really great. And we have to keep doing it for ever and ever. Yes, that’s the way it has to be.
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