mystery

¹⁶And it is clearly great, this mystery of piety, which was manifested in the flesh, which was justified in the Spirit, which has appeared to Angels, which has been preached to the Gentiles, which is believed in the world, which has been taken up in glory.

¹For I want you to know the kind of solicitude that I have for you, and for those who are at Laodicea, as well as for those who have not seen my face in the flesh. ²May their hearts be consoled and instructed in charity, with all the riches of a plenitude of understanding, with knowledge of the mystery of God the Father and of Christ Jesus. ³For in him are hidden all treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

²⁶the mystery which had remained hidden to past ages and generations, but which now is manifested to his saints. ²⁷To them, God willed to make known the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ and the hope of his glory within you.

²Now certainly, you have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God, which has been given to me among you: ³that, by means of revelation, the mystery was made known to me, just as I have written above in a few words. ⁴Yet, by reading this closely, you might be able to understand my prudence in the mystery of Christ. ⁵In other generations, this was unknown to the sons of men, even as it has now been revealed to his holy Apostles and Prophets in the Spirit, ⁶so that the Gentiles would be co-heirs, and of the same body, and partners together, by his promise in Christ Jesus, through the Gospel.

²⁵But to him who is able to confirm you according to my Gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, in accord with the revelation of the mystery which has been hidden from time immemorial,

¹¹Responding, he said to them: “Because it has been given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but it has not been given to them.

⁹So does he make known to us the mystery of his will, which he has set forth in Christ, in a manner well-pleasing to him,

²It is to the glory of God to conceal a word, and it is to the glory of kings to investigate speech.

²⁹These hidden things of the Lord our God have been revealed to us and to our sons in perpetuity, so that we may accomplish all the words of this law.”

¹¹Responding, he said to them: “Because it has been given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but it has not been given to them. ¹²For whoever has, it shall be given to him, and he shall have in abundance. But whoever has not, even what he has shall be taken away from him. ¹³For this reason, I speak to them in parables: because seeing, they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand.

¹¹And he said to them: “To you, it has been given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God. But to those who are outside, everything is presented in parables:

²⁵For I have become a minister of the Church, according to the dispensation of God that has been given to me among you, so that I may fulfill the Word of God, ²⁶the mystery which had remained hidden to past ages and generations, but which now is manifested to his saints. ²⁷To them, God willed to make known the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ and the hope of his glory within you.

⁷Instead, we speak of the wisdom of God in a mystery which has been hidden, which God predestined before this age for our glory,

⁹But this is just as it has been written: “The eye has not seen, and the ear has not heard, nor has it entered into the heart of man, what things God has prepared for those who love him.” ¹⁰But God has revealed these things to us through his Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God. ¹¹And who can know the things that are of a man, except the spirit which is within that man? So also, no one knows the things which are of God, except the Spirit of God. ¹²But we have not received the spirit of this world, but the Spirit who is of God, so that we may understand the things that have been given to us by God. ¹³And we are also speaking of these things, not in the learned words of human wisdom, but in the doctrine of the Spirit, bringing spiritual things together with spiritual things. ¹⁴But the animal nature of man does not perceive these things that are of the Spirit of God. For it is foolishness to him, and he is not able to understand it, because it must be examined spiritually.

²⁸So, too, husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. ²⁹For no man has ever hated his own flesh, but instead he nourishes and cherishes it, as Christ also does to the Church. ³⁰For we are a part of his body, of his flesh and of his bones. ³¹“For this reason, a man shall leave behind his father and mother, and he shall cling to his wife; and the two shall be as one flesh.” ³²This is a great Sacrament. And I am speaking in Christ and in the Church.

⁵⁰Now I say this, brothers, because flesh and blood is not able to possess the kingdom of God; neither will what is corrupt possess what is incorrupt. ⁵¹Behold, I tell you a mystery. Certainly, we shall all rise again, but we shall not all be transformed: ⁵²in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will rise up, incorruptible. And we shall be transformed. ⁵³Thus, it is necessary for this corruptibility to be clothed with incorruptibility, and for this mortality to be clothed with immortality.