For this verse see Col 1:25; Ephesians 1:19f.; 3:2.

Of which I was made a minister. See the notes on Ephesians 3:2.

According to the gift of the grace of God. It was not by m…

According to the gift of the grace of God given to me by the effectual working of His power.—The words “given by” should be rendered g…

Paul explains how he himself was enlisted in the service “of this gospel,” not through any ambition or qualification of his own but solely through …

Of which I was made a minister. Having declared the gospel to be the instrument employed in communicating grace to the Gentiles, he now ad…

Whereof I was made a minister
That is, of the Gospel, not by men, but by God: and he is a true minister of the Gospe…

For having preached the doctrine of truth, the apostle was a prisoner, but a prisoner of Jesus Christ; the object of special protection and care, w…