Now if God so clothes the grass of the field which blooms to-day and is thrown to-morrow into the furnace, will not he much more clothe you? O men, how little you trust him!

he who will not take his cross and follow after me is not worthy of me.

Then he ordered the crowds to recline on the grass, and after taking the five loaves and the two fish he looked up to heaven, blessed them, and after breaking the loaves handed them to the disciples, and the disciples handed them to the crowds.

Then he made the disciples embark in the boat and cross before him to the other side, while he dismissed the crowds;

Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone wishes to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me;

As they went out they met a Cyrenian called Simon, whom they forced to carry his cross.

and calling, "You were to destroy the temple and build it in three days! Save yourself, if you are God's Son! Come down from the cross!"

"He saved others," they said, "but he cannot save himself! He the 'king of Israel'! Let him come down now from the cross; then we will believe in him!

That same day when evening came he said to them, "Let us cross to the other side;"

Then he gave orders that they were to make all the people lie down in parties on the green grass;

Then he made the disciples at once embark in the boat and cross before him towards Bethsaida, while he dismissed the crowd;

Then he called the crowd to him with his disciples and said to them, "If anyone wishes to follow me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and so follow me;

Jesus looked at him and loved him. "There is one thing you want," he said; "go and sell all you have; give the money to the poor and you will have treasure in heaven; then come, take up the cross, and follow me."

They forced Simon a Cyrenian who was passing on his way from the country (the father of Alexander and Rufus) to carry his cross,

Come down from the cross and save yourself!"

Let 'the Christ,' 'the king of Israel' come down now from the cross! Let us see that and we will believe!" Those who were crucified with him also denounced him.

It happened on one of these days that he embarked in a boat alone with his disciples and said to them, "Let us cross to the other side of the lake." So they set sail.

He said to all, "If anyone wishes to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross day after day, and so follow me;

After he had gone away, the scribes and Pharisees commenced to follow him up closely and cross-question him on many points,

Now if God so clothes grass which blooms to-day in the field and is thrown to-morrow into the furnace, will he not much more clothe you? O men, how little you trust him!

whoever does not carry his own cross and come after me, he cannot be a disciple of mine.

Besides all that, a great gulf yawns between us and you, to keep back those who want to cross from us to you and also those who want to pass from you to us.'

but they roared, "To the cross, to the cross with him!"

As they led him off they caught hold of Simon a Cyrenian on his way from the country and laid the cross on him to carry after Jesus.

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.

For we have all been receiving grace after grace from his fulness;

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

Jesus said, "Get the people to lie down." Now there was plenty of grass at the spot, so the men lay down, numbering about five thousand.

and he went away, carrying the cross by himself, to the spot called the 'place of the skull' ??the Hebrew name is Golgotha;

Pilate had written an inscription to be put on the cross; what he wrote was, JESUS THE NAZARENE, THE KING OF THE JEWS.

Now beside the cross of Jesus stood his mother and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary of Magdala.

Now, as it was the day of Preparation, in order to prevent the bodies remaining on the cross during the sabbath (for that sabbath-day was a great day), the Jews asked Pilate to have the legs broken and the bodies removed.

this Jesus, betrayed in the predestined course of God's deliberate purpose, you got wicked men to nail to the cross and murder;

if we are being cross-examined to-day upon a benefit rendered to a cripple, upon how this man got better,

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

Now Stephen, who was full of grace and power, performed great wonders and miracles among the people.

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

Herod made inquiries for him but could not find him; so, after cross-examining the guards, he ordered them off to death. He then went down from Judaea to Caesarea, where he spent some time.

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.

Here they spent a considerable time, speaking fearlessly about the Lord, who attested the word of his grace by allowing signs and wonders to be performed by them.

thence they sailed for Antioch, where they had been commended to the grace of God for the work they had now completed.

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

while Paul selected Silas and went off, commended by the brothers to the grace of the Lord.

A vision appeared to Paul by night, the vision of a Macedonian standing and appealing to him with the words, "Cross to Macedonia and help us."

As he wished to cross to Achaia, the brothers wrote and urged the disciples there to give him a welcome. And on his arrival he proved of great service to those who by God's grace had believed,

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.

Only, I have nothing definite to write to the sovereign about him. So I have brought him up before you all, and especially before you, O king Agrippa, in order that I may have something to write as the result of your cross-examination.

to all in Rome who are beloved by God, called to be saints, grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

but they are justified for nothing by his grace through the ransom provided in Christ Jesus,

Through him we have got access to this grace where we have our standing, and triumph in the hope of God's glory.

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,

so that, while sin had reigned the reign of death, grace might also reign with a righteousness that ends in life eternal through Jesus Christ our Lord.

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'?

Sin must have no hold over you, for you live under grace, not under law.

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

Well, at the present day there is also a remnant, selected by grace.

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

Our talents differ with the grace that is given us; if the talent is that of prophecy, let us employ it in proportion to our faith;

that you may unite in a chorus of praise and glory to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ!

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

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

I always thank my God for the grace of God that has been bestowed on you in Christ Jesus;

Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel. And to preach it with no fine rhetoric, lest the cross of Christ should lose its power!

Those who are doomed to perish find the story of the cross 'sheer folly,' but it means the power of God for those whom he saves.

It matters very little to me that you or any human court should cross-question me on this point. I do not even cross-question myself;

for, although I am not conscious of having anything against me, that does not clear me. It is the Lord who cross-questions me on the matter.

But by God's grace I am what I am. The grace he showed me did not go for nothing; no, I have done far more work than all of them ??though it was not I but God's grace at my side.

The grace of the Lord Jesus be with you.

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

My proud boast is the testimony of my conscience that holiness and godly sincerity, not worldly cunning but the grace of God, have marked my conduct in the outside world and in particular my relations with you.

It is all in your interests, so that the more grace abounds, the more thanksgiving may rise and redound to the glory of God.

I appeal to you too, as a worker with God, do not receive the grace of God in vain.

Now, brothers, I have to tell you about the grace God has given to the churches of Macedonia.

they are drawn to you and pray for you, on account of the surpassing grace which God has shown to you.

but he told me, "It is enough for you to have my grace: it is in weakness that [my] power is fully felt." So I am proud to boast of all my weakness, and thus to have the power of Christ resting on my life.

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

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

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

But the God who had set me apart from my very birth called me by his grace,

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.

I do not annul God's grace; but if righteousness comes by way of the Law, then indeed Christ's death was useless.

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

I am 'still preaching circumcision myself,' am I? Then, brothers, why am I still being persecuted? And so the stumbling-block of the cross has lost its force, forsooth!

These men who are keen upon you getting circumcised are just men who want to make a grand display in the flesh ??it is simply to avoid being persecuted for the cross of Christ.

But no boasting for me, none except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me and I crucified to the world.

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, brothers. Amen.

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

redounding to the praise of his glorious grace bestowed on us in the Beloved,

So richly has God lavished his grace upon us!

he made us live together with Christ (it is by grace you have been saved);

to display throughout ages to come his surpassing wealth of grace and goodness toward us in Christ Jesus.

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

so as himself to give the death-blow to that feud by reconciling them both to God in one Body through the cross;

For this reason I Paul, I whom Jesus has made a prisoner for the sake of you Gentiles ??2 for surely you have heard how the grace of God which was vouchsafed me in your interests has ordered it,

Such is the gospel which I was called to serve by the endowment of God's grace which was vouchsafed me, by the energy of his power;

less than the least of all saints as I am, this grace was vouchsafed me, that I should bring the Gentiles the gospel of the fathomless wealth of Christ

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