If that’s how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and thrown into the furnace tomorrow, won’t He do much more for you—you of little faith?

And whoever doesn’t take up his cross and follow Me is not worthy of Me.

Then He commanded the crowds to sit down on the grass. He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, He blessed them. He broke the loaves and gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the crowds.

Then Jesus said to His disciples, “If anyone wants to come with Me, he must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow Me.

As they were going out, they found a Cyrenian man named Simon. They forced this man to carry His cross.

and saying, “The One who would demolish the sanctuary and rebuild it in three days, save Yourself! If You are the Son of God, come down from the cross!”

“He saved others, but He cannot save Himself! He is the King of Israel! Let Him come down now from the cross, and we will believe in Him.

On that day, when evening had come, He told them, “Let’s cross over to the other side of the sea.”

Then He instructed them to have all the people sit down in groups on the green grass.

Summoning the crowd along with His disciples, He said to them, “If anyone wants to be My follower, he must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow Me.

They forced a man coming in from the country, who was passing by, to carry Jesus’ cross. He was Simon, a Cyrenian, the father of Alexander and Rufus.

save Yourself by coming down from the cross!”

Let the Messiah, the King of Israel, come down now from the cross, so that we may see and believe.” Even those who were crucified with Him were taunting Him.

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

One day He and His disciples got into a boat, and He told them, “Let’s cross over to the other side of the lake.” So they set out,

Then He said to them all, “If anyone wants to come with Me, he must deny himself, take up his cross daily, and follow Me.

When He left there, the scribes and the Pharisees began to oppose Him fiercely and to cross-examine Him about many things;

If that’s how God clothes the grass, which is in the field today and is thrown into the furnace tomorrow, how much more will He do for you—you of little faith?

Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after Me cannot be My disciple.

Besides all this, a great chasm has been fixed between us and you, so that those who want to pass over from here to you cannot; neither can those from there cross over to us.’

As they led Him away, they seized Simon, a Cyrenian, who was coming in from the country, and laid the cross on him to carry behind Jesus.

The Word became flesh
and 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 grace
from His fullness,

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

Then Jesus said, “Have the people sit down.”

There was plenty of grass in that place, so they sat down. The men numbered about 5,000.

Carrying His own cross, He went out to what is called Skull Place, which in Hebrew is called Golgotha.

Pilate also had a sign lettered and put on the cross. The inscription was:

JESUS THE NAZARENE

THE KING OF THE JEWS.

Standing by the cross of Jesus were His mother, His mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.

Since it was the preparation day, the Jews did not want the bodies to remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a special day). They requested that Pilate have the men’s legs broken and that their bodies be taken away.

Though He was delivered up according to God’s determined plan and foreknowledge, you used lawless people to nail Him to a cross and kill Him.

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.

During the night a vision appeared to Paul: A Macedonian man was standing and pleading with him, “Cross over to Macedonia and help us!”

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,

For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to evangelize—not with clever words, so that the cross of Christ will not be emptied of its effect.

For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but it is God’s power to us who are being saved.

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.

Now brothers, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? In that case the offense of the cross has been abolished.

Those who want to make a good impression in the flesh are the ones who would compel you to be circumcised—but only to avoid being persecuted for the cross of Christ.

But as for me, I will never boast about anything except the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. The world has been crucified to me through the cross, and I to the world.

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—

He did this so that He might reconcile both to God in one body through the cross and put the hostility to death by it.

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,