Ephesians 3:2

World English Bible (2000)

if it is so that you have heard of the administration of that grace of God which was given me toward you;

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Εἴ γε ἠκούσατε τὴν οἰκονομίαν τῆς χάριτος τοῦ Θεοῦ τῆς δοθείσης μοι εἰς ὑμᾶς:

Transliteration

If indeed you ēkousate the oikonomian of the charitos of the Theou of the dotheisēs to me eis you:

Grammar Details

• *Ei ge*: conditional particle with emphatic particle - if indeed/since surely
• *ēkousate*: aorist, active, indicative, 2nd person, plural - you heard/have heard
• *oikonomian*: accusative, feminine, singular - stewardship/administration/dispensation
• *charitos*: genitive, feminine, singular - of grace/favor
• *Theou*: genitive, masculine, singular - of God
• *dotheisēs*: aorist, passive, participle, genitive, feminine, singular - having been given
• *moi*: dative, 1st person, singular - to me
• *eis*: preposition with accusative - to/toward/for
• *hymas*: accusative, 2nd person, plural - you

Word Meanings

• *oikonomian*: stewardship/administration/dispensation/management
• *charitos*: grace/favor/kindness
• *dotheisēs*: given/granted/bestowed

Referenced Verses

• 2 Tim 1:11 : 11 For this, I was appointed as a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.
• Rom 1:5 : 5 through whom we received grace and apostleship, for obedience of faith among all the nations, for his name's sake;
• Eph 4:7 : 7 But to each one of us was the grace given according to the measure of the gift of Christ.
• Gal 1:13 : 13 For 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.
• Gal 1:15-16 : 15 But when it was the good pleasure of God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me through his grace, 16 to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I didn't immediately confer with flesh and blood,
• Eph 1:10 : 10 to 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 13:2 : 2 As 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 13:46 : 46 Paul 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 22:21 : 21 "He said to me, 'Depart, for I will send you out far from here to the Gentiles.'"
• Col 1:25-27 : 25 of which I was made a servant, according to the stewardship of God which was given me toward you, to fulfill the word of God, 26 the mystery which has been hidden for ages and generations. But now it has been revealed to his saints, 27 to whom God was pleased to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory;
• 1 Tim 1:11 : 11 according to the Good News of the glory of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.
• 1 Tim 2:7 : 7 to 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.
• 1 Tim 1:4 : 4 neither to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies, which cause disputes, rather than God's stewardship, which is in faith--
• Acts 9:15 : 15 But 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 26:17-18 : 17 delivering you from the people, and from the Gentiles, to whom I send you, 18 to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.'
• Rom 11:13 : 13 For I speak to you who are Gentiles. Since then as I am an apostle to Gentiles, I glorify my ministry;
• Rom 12:3 : 3 For 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.
• Rom 15:15-16 : 15 But I write the more boldly to you in part, as reminding you, because of the grace that was given to me by God, 16 that I should be a servant of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, serving as a priest the Good News of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be made acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.
• 1 Cor 4:1 : 1 So let a man think of us as Christ's servants, and stewards of God's mysteries.
• 1 Cor 9:17-22 : 17 For 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. 18 What then is my reward? That, when I preach the Good News, I may present the Good News of Christ without charge, so as not to abuse my authority in the Good News. 19 For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more. 20 To the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to those who are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain those who are under the law; 21 to those who are without law, as without law (not being without law toward God, but under law toward Christ), that I might win those who are without law. 22 To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some.
• Eph 3:8 : 8 To me, the very least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,
• Gal 2:8-9 : 8 (for he who appointed Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision appointed me also to the Gentiles); 9 and when they perceived the grace that was given to me, James and Cephas and John, they who were reputed to be pillars, gave to me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, that we should go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcision.
• Eph 4:21 : 21 if indeed you heard him, and were taught in him, even as truth is in Jesus:
• Col 1:4 : 4 having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which you have toward all the saints,
• Col 1:6 : 6 which 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;