But the angel said to her, "Fear not, Mary, you have found favour with God.

And the child grew and became strong; he was filled with wisdom, and the favour of God was on him.

And Jesus increased in wisdom and in stature, and in favour with God and man.

All spoke well of him and marvelled at the gracious words that came from his lips; they said, "Is this not Joseph's son?"

As they were unable to pay, he freely forgave them both. Tell me, now, which of them will love him most?"

So the Logos became flesh and tarried among us; we have seen his glory ??glory such as an only son enjoys from his father ??seen it to be full of grace and reality.

while the Law was given through Moses, grace and reality are ours through Jesus Christ.

praising God and looked on with favour by all the people. Meantime the Lord added the saved daily to their number.

the apostles gave their testimony to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus with great power, and great grace was upon them all.

Brothers, look out seven of your own number, men of good reputation who are full of the Spirit and of wisdom. We will appoint them to this duty,

rescuing him from all his troubles and allowing him to find favour for his wisdom with Pharaoh king of Egypt, who appointed him viceroy over Egypt and over all his own household.

rescuing him from all his troubles and allowing him to find favour for his wisdom with Pharaoh king of Egypt, who appointed him viceroy over Egypt and over all his own household.

He found favour with God and asked permission to devise a dwelling for the God of Jacob.

When he came and saw the grace of God he rejoiced, and encouraged them all to hold by the Lord with heartfelt purpose

After the synagogue broke up, a number of the Jews and the devout proselytes followed them; Paul and Barnabas talked to them and encouraged them to hold by the grace of God.

At Lystra there was a man sitting, who was powerless in his feet, a lame man unable to walk ever since he was born.

No, it is by the grace of the Lord Jesus that we believe and are saved, in the same way as they are."

But then, I set no value on my own life as compared with the joy of finishing my course and fulfilling the commission I received from the Lord Jesus to attest the gospel of the grace of God.

But then, I set no value on my own life as compared with the joy of finishing my course and fulfilling the commission I received from the Lord Jesus to attest the gospel of the grace of God.

And now I entrust you to God and the word of his grace; he is able to upbuild you and give you your inheritance among all the consecrated.

as a special favour, to send for him to Jerusalem, meaning to lay an ambush for him and murder him on the road.

saying, 'Have no fear, Paul; you must stand before Caesar. And God has granted you the lives of all your fellow-voyagers.'

Whatever the Law says, we know, it says to those who are inside the Law, that every mouth may be shut and all the world made answerable to God; for no person will be acquitted in his sight on the score of obedience to law. What the Law imparts is the consciousness of sin. read more. But now we have a righteousness of God disclosed apart from law altogether; it is attested by the Law and the prophets, but it is a righteousness of God which comes by believing in Jesus Christ. And it is meant for all who have faith. No distinctions are drawn. All have sinned, all come short of the glory of God, but they are justified for nothing by his grace through the ransom provided in Christ Jesus,

but they are justified for nothing by his grace through the ransom provided in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as the means of propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to demonstrate the justice of God in view of the fact that sins previously committed during the time of God's forbearance had been passed over; read more. it was to demonstrate his justice at the present epoch, showing that God is just himself and that he justifies man on the score of faith in Jesus.

This, that if 'Abraham was justified on the score of what he did,' he has something to be proud of. But not to be proud of before God. For what does scripture say? Abraham believed God and this was counted to him as righteousness. read more. Now a worker has his wage counted to him as a due, not as a favour;

Now a worker has his wage counted to him as a due, not as a favour; but a man who instead of 'working' believes in Him who justifies the ungodly, has his faith counted as righteousness. read more. Just as David himself describes the bliss of the man who has righteousness counted to him by God apart from what he does ??7 Blessed are they whose breaches of the Law are forgiven, whose sins are covered!

Blessed is the man whose sin the Lord will not count to him.

(What the Law produces is the Wrath, not the promise of God; where there is no law, there is no transgression either.)

As we are justified by faith, then, let us enjoy the peace we have with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

As we are justified by faith, then, let us enjoy the peace we have with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have got access to this grace where we have our standing, and triumph in the hope of God's glory.

Through him we have got access to this grace where we have our standing, and triumph in the hope of God's glory. Not only so, but we triumph even in our troubles, knowing that trouble produces endurance, read more. endurance produces character, and character produces hope ??5 a hope which never disappoints us, since God's love floods our hearts through the holy Spirit which has been given to us.

For when we were still in weakness, Christ died in due time for the ungodly. For the ungodly! Why, a man will hardly die for the just ??though one might bring oneself to die, if need be, for a good man. read more. But God proves his love for us by this, that Christ died for us when we were still sinners. Much more then, now that we are justified by his blood, shall we be saved by him from Wrath. If we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son when we were enemies, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life. Not only so, but we triumph in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we now enjoy our reconciliation.

but the gift is very different from the trespass. For while the rest of men died by the trespass of one man, the grace of God and the free gift which comes by the grace of the one man Jesus Christ overflowed far more richly upon the rest of men.

but the gift is very different from the trespass. For while the rest of men died by the trespass of one man, the grace of God and the free gift which comes by the grace of the one man Jesus Christ overflowed far more richly upon the rest of men.

For if the trespass of one man allowed death to reign through that one man, much more shall those who receive the overflowing grace and free gift of righteousness reign in life through One, through Jesus Christ.

Law slipped in to aggravate the trespass; sin increased, but grace surpassed it far,

Now what are we to infer from this? That we are to 'remain on in sin, so that there may be all the more grace'?

What follows, then? Are we 'to sin, because we live under grace, not under law'? Never!

Sin's wage is death, but God's gift is life eternal in Christ Jesus our Lord.

What follows, then? That 'the Law is equivalent to sin'? Never! Why, had it not been for the Law, I would never have known what sin meant! Thus I would never have known what it is to covet, unless the Law had said, You must not covet.

in order to secure the fulfilment of the Law's requirements in our lives, as we live and move not by the flesh but by the Spirit.

The God who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, surely He will give us everything besides!

They would not surrender to the righteousness of God, because they were ignorant of his righteousness and therefore essayed to set up a righteousness of their own.

Selected by grace, and therefore not for anything they have done; otherwise grace would cease to be grace.

There are varieties of talents, but the same Spirit;

For I am the very least of the apostles, unfit to bear the name of apostle, since I persecuted the church of God.

so that instead of censuring you should now forgive him and comfort him, in case the man is overwhelmed by excessive remorse.

If you forgive the man, I forgive him too; anything I had to forgive him has been forgiven in the presence of Christ for your sakes,

(You know how gracious our Lord Jesus Christ was; rich though he was, he became poor for the sake of you, that by his poverty you might be rich.)

Where were you inferior to the rest of the churches? ??unless in this, that your apostle did not choose to make himself a burden to you. Pray pardon me this terrible wrong!

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

I am astonished you are hastily shifting like this, deserting Him who called you by Christ's grace and going over to another gospel.

and when they recognized the grace I had been given, then the so-called 'pillars' of the church, James and Cephas and John, gave myself and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship. Our sphere was to be the Gentiles, theirs the circumcised.

but since we know a man is justified simply by faith in Jesus Christ and not by doing what the Law commands, we ourselves have believed in Christ Jesus so as to get justified by faith in Christ and not by doing what the Law commands ??for by doing what the Law commands no person shall be justified.

but since we know a man is justified simply by faith in Jesus Christ and not by doing what the Law commands, we ourselves have believed in Christ Jesus so as to get justified by faith in Christ and not by doing what the Law commands ??for by doing what the Law commands no person shall be justified. If it is discovered that in our quest for justification in Christ we are 'sinners' as well as the Gentiles, does that make Christ an agent of sin? Never!

If it is discovered that in our quest for justification in Christ we are 'sinners' as well as the Gentiles, does that make Christ an agent of sin? Never! I really convict myself of transgression when I rebuild what I destroyed.

I really convict myself of transgression when I rebuild what I destroyed. For through the Law I died to the Law that I might live for God;

For through the Law I died to the Law that I might live for God; I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, Christ lives in me; the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself up for me.

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, Christ lives in me; the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself up for me. I do not annul God's grace; but if righteousness comes by way of the Law, then indeed Christ's death was useless.

If the Inheritance is due to law, it ceases to be due to promise. Now it was by a promise that God bestowed it on Abraham.

You are for justification by the Law? Then you are done with Christ, you have deserted grace,

For it is by grace you have been saved, as you had faith; it is not your doing but God's gift,

For it is by grace you have been saved, as you had faith; it is not your doing but God's gift,

But each one of us is granted his own grace, as determined by the full measure of Christ's gift.

Let the thief steal no more; rather let him work and put his hands to an honest task, so as to have something to contribute to the needy.

be kind to each other, be tender-hearted, be generous to each other as God has been generous to you in Christ.

For on behalf of Christ you have the favour of suffering no less than of believing in him,

Therefore God raised him high and conferred on him a Name above all names,

when you were buried with him in your baptism and thereby raised with him as you believed in the power of the God who raised him from the dead. For though you were dead in your trespasses, your flesh uncircumcised, He made you live with Christ, He forgave us all our trespasses,

Wives, be subject to your husbands; that is your proper duty in the Lord.

The reason why I am sending him to you is that he may ascertain how you are, and encourage your hearts.

so that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you (and you glorified in him), by the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

though I had formerly been a blasphemer and a persecutor and a wanton aggressor. I obtained mercy because in my unbelief I had acted out of ignorance; and the grace of our Lord flooded my life along with the faith and love that Christ Jesus inspires. read more. It is a sure word, it deserves all praise, that "Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners"; and though I am the foremost of sinners, I obtained mercy, for the purpose of furnishing Christ Jesus with the chief illustration of his utter patience; I was to be the typical instance of all who were to believe in him and gain eternal life.

instead of studying Jewish myths and rules laid down by men who have discarded the Truth.

You must instruct people in what is due to sound doctrine.

For the grace of God has appeared to save all men,

For the grace of God has appeared to save all men, and it schools us to renounce irreligion and worldly passions and to live a life of self-mastery, of integrity, and of piety in this present world, read more. awaiting the blessed hope of the appearance of the Glory of the great God and of our Saviour Christ Jesus, who gave himself up for us to redeem us from all iniquity and secure himself a clean people with a zest for good works.

And get quarters ready for me, for I am hoping that by your prayers I shall be restored to you.

Therefore let us render thanks that we get an unshaken realm; and in this way let us worship God acceptably ??29 but with godly fear and awe, for our God is indeed a consuming fire.

Once you have suffered for a little, the God of all grace who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ Jesus, will repair and recruit and strengthen you.

speaking of this as he has done in all his letters ??letters containing some knotty points, which ignorant and unsteady souls twist (as they do the rest of the scriptures) to their own destruction.

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.