\v 6 This hidden truth is that the Gentiles are fellow heirs and fellow members of the body and fellow sharers in the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel.
\v 7 For this I became a servant by the gift of God's grace given to me through the working of his power.
\v 8 God gave this gift to me, although I am less than the lowest of those set apart for God, to proclaim to the Gentiles the gospel of the infinite riches of Christ,
\v 9 and to bring everyone into the light and to tell them about God's secret plan—the plan that God (who created all things) had hidden for ages in the past.
\v 10 The purpose for bringing everyone into the light was that, through the church, the rulers and authorities in the heavenly places would come to know the complex nature of the wisdom of God,