Translation
Paraphrase
On account of the grace-filled way in which God’s plan has joined Jews and Gentiles together through the redemptive work of Christ, I fall on my knees to take my gratitude and my petitions to our heavenly Father,
Footnotes
1: "for the favorable sake of this":
This is the same phrase that we see at the beginning of verse 1.
HERE PAUL PICKS UP WHAT HE STARTED TO SAY IN VERSE 1
In our chapter 2 of this letter Paul wrote about how all of us had been living in darkness and were brought into God’s saving light. Then death and resurrection of Jesus broke down of the wall of separation which had existed between the Jews and the Gentiles. At the beginning of what we call chapter 3, Paul wanted to use the momentum from chapter two and move into some important results of the realities laid out in chapter two, but first he had more to say about his personal ministry to the Gentiles, the price he had paid in order to fulfill that ministry, and the way his suffering was affecting the Ephesian church. Hence the long parenthetical statement. Here in verse 14, Paul is getting back to what he started to say in verse one. He wanted to tell then what his prayers for them often sound like, so he will begin doing so now.