Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?

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

Then he commanded the multitudes to sit down on the grass. And taking the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, he blessed and broke and gave the loaves to the disciples; and the disciples gave them to the multitudes.

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

Now as they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name, and they compelled him to carry his cross.

and saying, "You who would destroy the temple and build it in three days, save yourself! If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross."

"He saved others; he cannot save himself. He is the King of Israel; let him come down now from the cross, and we will believe in him.

Then he commanded them to make them all sit down in groups on the green grass.

And he called to him the multitude with his disciples, and said to them, "If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.

Then they compelled a certain man, Simon of Cyrene, the father of Alexander and Rufus, as he was coming out of the country and passing by, to carry his cross.

save yourself, and come down from the cross!"

Let the Christ, the King of Israel, come down now from the cross, that we may see and believe." Those who were crucified with him also reviled him.

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

Then he said to them all, "If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.

But if God so clothes the grass, which today is in the field and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, how much more will he clothe you, O you of little faith!

And whoever does not bear his cross and come after me cannot be my disciple.

And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been fixed, so that those who want to pass from here to you cannot, nor can anyone cross over from there to us.'

And as they led him away, they seized one Simon of Cyrene, who was coming in from the country, and laid on him the cross, to carry it behind Jesus.

And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, the glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth.

And from his fullness have we all received, grace upon grace.

For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

Jesus said, "Make the people sit down." Now there was much grass in the place; so the men sat down, in number about five thousand.

And he, bearing his cross, went out to a place called the Place of the Skull, which is called in Hebrew, Golgotha.

Pilate wrote a title and put it on the cross. It read: JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS.

By the cross of Jesus stood his mother, and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.

Therefore, because it was the day of Preparation, that the bodies should not remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a high day), the Jews asked Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.

this man, delivered over by the predetermined plan and foreknowledge of God, you nailed to a cross by the hands of godless men and put him to death.

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

And Stephen, full of grace and power, did great wonders and signs among the people.

When he arrived and saw the grace of God, he was glad and encouraged them all to remain true to the Lord with all their hearts;

When the meeting of the synagogue broke up, many Jews and devout converts to Judaism followed Paul and Barnabas, who spoke to them and urged them to continue in the grace of God.

So they spent a long time there, speaking boldly for the Lord, who bore witness to the word of his grace, granting signs and wonders to be done by their hands.

From there they sailed to Antioch, where they had been commended to the grace of God for the work which they had completed.

But we believe that we are saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, just as they are."

But Paul chose Silas and left, being commended by the brethren to the grace of the Lord.

And when he wanted to go across to Achaia, the brethren encouraged him and wrote to the disciples to welcome him. When he had arrived, he greatly helped those who had believed through grace,

But I do not consider my life of any account nor as precious to myself, if only I may finish my course and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God.

And now I commend you to God and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified.

Through him we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of his name among all the nations,

To all in Rome who are beloved of God, called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

and are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,

Therefore, the promise comes by faith, so that it may be by grace and may be guaranteed to all his descendantsnot only to those who are of the law but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham, for he is the father of us all

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

But the free gift is not like the trespass. For if by the one man's trespass many died, much more the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abounded to many.

For if, by the one man's trespass, death reigned through that one man, much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man Jesus Christ.)

Law came in, that the trespass might increase. But where sin increased, grace abounded all the more,

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

What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound?

For sin shall not have dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.

What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Certainly not!

So too at the present time there is a remnant, chosen by grace.

And if it is by grace, then it is no longer on the basis of works; otherwise, grace would no longer be grace.

For by the grace given to me I say to every one among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith which God has assigned him.

Having gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, in proportion to our faith;

But I have written very boldly to you on some points, so as to remind you again, because of the grace that was given me from God,

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

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

I thank my God always for you because of the grace of God which was given you in Christ Jesus,

For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospelnot with words of human wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power.

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

According to the grace of God which was given to me, like a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another is building on it. But each man must be careful how he builds on it.

But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. No, I worked harder than all of themyet not I, but the grace of God that was with me.

The grace of The Lord Jesus be with you.

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.

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

I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting him who called you by the grace of Christ and turning to a different gospel

But when God, who had set me apart even from my mother's womb and called me through his grace, was pleased

and when they perceived the grace that was given to me, James and Cephas and John, who were reputed to be pillars, gave to me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, that we should go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised.

I do not nullify the grace of God, for if righteousness comes through the Law, then Christ died for nothing."

You have been severed from Christ, you who are seeking to be justified by law; you have fallen away from grace.

But if I, brethren, still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? In that case the stumbling block of the cross has been abolished.

Those who want to make a good showing in the flesh try to compel you to be circumcised, and only in order that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.

But may it never be that I would boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

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

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

to the praise of his glorious grace, which he freely bestowed on us in the Beloved.

In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace

even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),

so that in the coming ages he might show the surpassing riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.

For by grace you have been saved through faith; and this is not of yourselves, it is the gift of God

and might reconcile them both to God in one body through the cross, by which he put to death the hostility.

assuming that you have heard of the stewardship of God's grace that was given to me for you,

Of this gospel I was made a minister according to the gift of God's grace which was given me by the working of his power.

To me, though I am the very least of all the saints, this grace was given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,

But to each one of us grace was given according to the measure of Christ's gift.

Let no unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building others up according to the need of the moment, that it may impart grace to those who hear.

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

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

For it is only right for me to feel this way about you all, because I have you in my heart, since both in my imprisonment and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel, you all are partakers of grace with me.