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

For our boast is this: the testimony of our conscience, that with holiness and godly sincerity, not in worldly wisdom but in the grace of God, we have conducted ourselves in the world, and still more toward you.

For all this is for your benefit, so that the grace that is reaching more and more people may cause thanksgiving to overflow to the glory of God.

Working together with him, then, we urge you not to receive the grace of God in vain.

Now, brethren, we want you to know about the grace of God which has been given in the churches of Macedonia,

So we urged Titus that as he had previously made a beginning, he would also complete in you this work of grace.

But as you excel in everythingin faith, in utterance, in knowledge, in all earnestness, and in your love for ussee that you excel in this work of grace also.

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, so that through his poverty you might become rich.

And God is able to make all grace abound toward you, so that you, always having all sufficiency in everything, may have an abundance for every good work.

while they long for you and pray for you, because of the surpassing grace of God in you.

But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest on me.

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