'Grace' in the Bible

Lord God, You are God; Your words are true, and You have promised this grace to Your servant.

But now, for a brief moment, grace has come from Yahweh our God to preserve a remnant for us and give us a stake in His holy place. Even in our slavery, God has given us new life and light to our eyes.

Though we are slaves, our God has not abandoned us in our slavery. He has extended grace to us in the presence of the Persian kings, giving us new life, so that we can rebuild the house of our God and repair its ruins, to give us a wall in Judah and Jerusalem.

You are the most handsome of men;grace flows from your lips.Therefore God has blessed you forever.

Lord God of Hosts, You are the God of Israel,rise up to punish all the nations;do not show grace to any wicked traitors.Selah

For the Lord God is a sun and shield.The Lord gives grace and glory;He does not withhold the goodfrom those who live with integrity.

for they will be a garland of grace on your headand a gold chain around your neck.

He mocks those who mock,but gives grace to the humble.

She will place a garland of grace on your head;she will give you a crown of beauty.”

So I will hurl you from this land into a land that you and your fathers are not familiar with. There you will worship other gods both day and night, for I will not grant you grace.

‘What are you, great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you will become a plain. And he will bring out the capstone accompanied by shouts of: Grace, grace to it!’”

“Then I will pour out a spirit of grace and prayer on the house of David and the residents of Jerusalem, and they will look at Me whom they pierced. They will mourn for Him as one mourns for an only child and weep bitterly for Him as one weeps for a firstborn.

The boy grew up and became strong, filled with wisdom, and God’s grace was on Him.

The Word became fleshand took up residence among us.We observed His glory,the glory as the One and Only Son from the Father,full of grace and truth.

Indeed, we have all received grace after gracefrom His fullness,

for the law was given through Moses,grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

And the apostles were giving testimony with great power to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and great grace was on all of them.

Stephen, full of grace and power, was performing great wonders and signs among the people.

When he arrived and saw the grace of God, he was glad and encouraged all of them to remain true to the Lord with a firm resolve of the heart,

After the synagogue had been dismissed, many of the Jews and devout proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas, who were speaking with them and persuading them to continue in the grace of God.

So they stayed there for some time and spoke boldly in reliance on the Lord, who testified to the message of His grace by granting that signs and wonders be performed through them.

From there they sailed back to Antioch where they had been entrusted to the grace of God for the work they had now completed.

On the contrary, we believe we are saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus in the same way they are.”

Then Paul chose Silas and departed, after being commended to the grace of the Lord by the brothers.

When he wanted to cross over to Achaia, the brothers wrote to the disciples urging them to welcome him. After he arrived, he greatly helped those who had believed through grace.

But I count my life of no value to myself, so that I may finish my course and the ministry I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of God’s grace.

“And now I commit you to God and to the message of His grace, which is able to build you up and to give you an inheritance among all who are sanctified.

We have received grace and apostleship through Him to bring about the obedience of faith among all the nations, on behalf of His name,

To all who are in Rome, loved by God, called as saints.Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

They are justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.

This is why the promise is by faith, so that it may be according to grace, to guarantee it to all the descendants—not only to those who are of the law but also to those who are of Abraham’s faith. He is the father of us all

We have also obtained access through Him by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God.

But the gift is not like the trespass. For if by the one man’s trespass the many died, how much more have the grace of God and the gift overflowed to the many by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ.

Since by the one man’s trespass, death reigned through that one man, how much more will those who receive the overflow of grace and the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ.

The law came along to multiply the trespass. But where sin multiplied, grace multiplied even more

so that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace will reign through righteousness, resulting in eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

What should we say then? Should we continue in sin so that grace may multiply?

For sin will not rule over you, because you are not under law but under grace.

What then? Should we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Absolutely not!

In the same way, then, there is also at the present time a remnant chosen by grace.

Now if by grace, then it is not by works; otherwise grace ceases to be grace.

For by the grace given to me, I tell everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he should think. Instead, think sensibly, as God has distributed a measure of faith to each one.

According to the grace given to us, we have different gifts:If prophecy,use it according to the standard of one’s faith;

Nevertheless, I have written to remind you more boldly on some points because of the grace given me by God

The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus be with you.

[The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all.]

Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

I always thank my God for you because of God’s grace given to you in Christ Jesus,

According to God’s grace that was given to me, I have laid a foundation as a skilled master builder, and another builds on it. But each one must be careful how he builds on it.

But by God’s grace I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not ineffective. However, I worked more than any of them, yet not I, but God’s grace that was with me.

The grace of the Lord Jesus be with you.

Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

For this is our confidence: The testimony of our conscience is that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially toward you, with God-given sincerity and purity, not by fleshly wisdom but by God’s grace.

Indeed, everything is for your benefit, so that grace, extended through more and more people, may cause thanksgiving to increase to God’s glory.

Working together with Him, we also appeal to you, “Don’t receive God’s grace in vain.”

We want you to know, brothers, about the grace of God granted to the churches of Macedonia:

So we urged Titus that just as he had begun, so he should also complete this grace to you.

Now as you excel in everything—faith, speech, knowledge, and in all diligence, and in your love for us—excel also in this grace.

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ: Though He was rich, for your sake He became poor, so that by His poverty you might become rich.

And God is able to make every grace overflow to you, so that in every way, always having everything you need, you may excel in every good work.

And they will have deep affection for you in their prayers on your behalf because of the surpassing grace of God in you.

But He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness.” Therefore, I will most gladly boast all the more about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may reside in me.

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with all of you.

Grace to you and peace from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ,

I am amazed that you are so quickly turning away from Him who called you by the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel—

But when God, who from my birth set me apart and called me by His grace, was pleased

When James, Cephas, and John, recognized as pillars, acknowledged the grace that had been given to me, they gave the right hand of fellowship to me and Barnabas, agreeing that we should go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised.

I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness comes through the law, then Christ died for nothing.

You who are trying to be justified by the law are alienated from Christ; you have fallen from grace.

Brothers, the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen.

Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

to the praise of His glorious grace that He favored us with in the Beloved.

We have redemption in Him through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace

made us alive with the Messiah even though we were dead in trespasses. You are saved by grace!

so that in the coming ages He might display the immeasurable riches of His grace through His kindness to us in Christ Jesus.

For you are saved by grace through faith, and this is not from yourselves; it is God’s gift—

you have heard, haven’t you, about the administration of God’s grace that He gave to me for you?

I was made a servant of this gospel by the gift of God’s grace that was given to me by the working of His power.

This grace was given to me—the least of all the saints—to proclaim to the Gentiles the incalculable riches of the Messiah,

Now grace was given to each one of us according to the measure of the Messiah’s gift.

No foul language is to come from your mouth, but only what is good for building up someone in need, so that it gives grace to those who hear.

Grace be with all who have undying love for our Lord Jesus Christ.

Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

It is right for me to think this way about all of you, because I have you in my heart, and you are all partners with me in grace, both in my imprisonment and in the defense and establishment of the gospel.

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit.

To the saints in Christ at Colossae, who are faithful brothers.Grace to you and peace from God our Father.

that has come to you. It is bearing fruit and growing all over the world, just as it has among you since the day you heard it and recognized God’s grace in the truth.

This greeting is in my own hand—Paul. Remember my imprisonment. Grace be with you.

Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy:To the church of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.Grace to you and peace.

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.

Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

so that the name of our Lord Jesus will be glorified by you, and you by Him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

May our Lord Jesus Christ Himself and God our Father, who has loved us and given us eternal encouragement and good hope by grace,

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with all of you.

To Timothy, my true son in the faith.Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

And the grace of our Lord overflowed, along with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.

By professing it, some people have deviated from the faith.Grace be with all of you.

To Timothy, my dearly loved son.Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

He has saved us and called uswith a holy calling,not according to our works,but according to His own purpose and grace,which was given to us in Christ Jesusbefore time began.

You, therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.