1 Korintus 2:7

2:7 Instead we speak the wisdom of God, hidden in a mystery, that God determined before the ages for our glory.

1 Korintus 4:1

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4:1 One ¹  should think about us this way – as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God.

1 Korintus 13:2

13:2 And if I have prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so that I can remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.

Efesus 1:9

1:9 He did this when he revealed ²  to us the secret ³  of his will, according to his good pleasure that he set forth ⁴  in Christ, ⁵ 

Efesus 3:3

3:3 that ⁶  by revelation the divine secret ⁷  was made known to me, as I wrote before briefly. ⁸ 

Efesus 5:32

5:32 This mystery is great – but I am actually ⁹  speaking with reference to Christ and the church.

¹ tn Here ἄνθρωπος (anqrwpo") is both indefinite and general, “one”; “a person” (BDAG 81 s.v. 4.a.γ).

² tn Or “He did this by revealing”; Grk “making known, revealing.” Verse 9 begins with a participle dependent on “lavished” in v. 8; the adverbial participle could be understood as temporal (“when he revealed”), which would be contemporaneous to the action of the finite verb “lavished,” or as means (“by revealing”). The participle has been translated here with the temporal nuance to allow for means to also be a possible interpretation. If the translation focused instead upon means, the temporal nuance would be lost as the time frame for the action of the participle would become indistinct.

³ tn Or “mystery.” In the NT μυστήριον (musthrion) refers to a divine secret previously undisclosed.

⁴ tn Or “purposed,” “publicly displayed.” Cf. Rom 3:25.

⁵ tn Grk “in him”; the referent (Christ) has been specified in the translation for the sake of clarity.

sn In Christ. KJV has “in himself” as though the antecedent were God the Father. Although possible, the notion of the verb set forth (Greek προτίθημι, protiqhmi) implies a plan that is carried out in history (cf. Rom 1:13; 3:25) and thus more likely refers to Christ.

⁶ tn Or “namely, that is.”

⁷ tn Or “mystery.”

⁸ tn Or “as I wrote above briefly.”

sn As I wrote briefly may refer to the author’s brief discussion of the divine secret in 1:9.

⁹ tn The term “actually” is not in the Greek text, but is supplied in the English translation to bring out the heightened sense of the statement.