Ephesians 3:2 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward:

Ephesians 3:2 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Timothy 1:11
According to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.
Colossians 1:25-27
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; …
2 Timothy 1:11
Whereunto I am appointed a preacher, and an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.
Galatians 1:15-16
But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace, …
Romans 1:5
By whom we have received grace and apostleship, for obedience to the faith among all nations, for his name:

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-13)

Here we have the account which Paul gives the Ephesians concerning himself, as he was appointed by God the apostle of the Gentiles. I. We may observe that he acquaints them with the tribulations and sufferings which he endured in the discharge of that office, Eph. 3:1. The first clause refers to the preceding chapter, and may be understood either of these two ways:—1. “ For this cause ,—for having…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 2)

2. If--The Greek does not imply doubt: “Assuming (what I know to be the fact, namely) that ye have heard,” &c. “If, as I presume,” The indicative in the Greek shows that no doubt is implied: “Seeing that doubtless,” &c. He by this phrase delicately reminds them of their having heard from himself, and probably from others subsequently, the fact. See Introduction, showing that these words do not dis…