"If God then so clothes the grass of the field, which blooms today, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, you of little faith?

When Jesus saw the great crowds about him, he had given directions to cross to the other side,

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

Then he told the people to sit down on the grass, and after taking the five loaves and the two fishes, he looked up to heaven and blessed them. Then he broke the loaves and handed them to the disciples, and the disciples handed them to the crowds.

Then Jesus said to his disciples. "If any man wishes to come after me, let him renounce self, take up his cross, and follow me.

And as they went out they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name, whom they compelled to go with them to carry his cross.

"You who were going to 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 other," they said, "himself he cannot save. He, the King of Israel! Let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe on him!

Then he directed them to make all sit down by companies on the green grass.

Then summoning the crowd to him, with his disciples. he said: "If any man wishes to follow me, let him renounce self, take up his cross, and so follow me.

Simon a Cyrenian, a passer-by, who was coming from the country (the father of Alexander and Rufus), they commandeered to carry the cross of Jesus.

Come down from the cross!

The Christ! The King of Israel! Let him now come down from the cross, that we may see and believe." They also who had been crucified with Jesus kept reviling him.

when the angel said to her. "Fear not Mary, for you have found grace with God.

And the child grew and became strong, becoming full of wisdom, and the grace of God was upon him.

Now it happened that one of these days he got into a boat, And him his disciples, and he said to them, "Let us cross to the other side of the lake."

And he said to all. "If any man wills to follow me, Let him renounce self and take up his cross daily and follow me.

After he had gone away, the Scribes and the Pharisee began to set themselves vehemently against him, and to cross-question him upon many points,

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

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

"But besides all this, between us and you there is a great chasm fixed, so that those who want to cross from here to you cannot, nor can those who would cross from you to us.'

And when they led him away they took hold of Simon, a Cyrenean, who was coming in from the country, and laid the cross on him to carry it behind Jesus.

And the Word became flesh and tented with us. And we gazed on his glory??lory as of the Father's only Son??ull of grace and truth.

For out of his fulness we have all received, yes, grace upon grace.

For the Law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

"Make the men sit down," said Jesus. The ground was covered with thick grass; so the men sat down, in numbers about five thousand. "of righteousness, because I am going to my Father, and you will no longer see me;

So they took Jesus, who went forth bearing his own cross, to a place called The Place of a Skull??n the Hebrew tongue, Golgotha.

And Pilate moreover wrote an inscription and placed it above the cross. What he wrote was, "JESUS, THE NAZARENE, KING OF THE JEWS"

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

It was Preparation Day, so in order to prevent the bodies' hanging on the cross during the Sabbath (for the Sabbath was a great day) the Jews begged Pilate to have the legs broken, and the bodies taken away.

And the apostles continued with great power to give their witness concerning the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and great grace was upon them all.

Meanwhile Stephen, full of grace and power, wrought great wonders and signs among the people.

"But God was with him, and delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him grace and wisdom, when he stood before Pharaoh, king of Egypt, who appointed him Governor over Egypt, and over all the royal household.

When he arrived, and saw the grace of God, he was glad, and he encouraged them all to remain faithful to the Lord, with full purpose of heart;

When the congregation broke up, many of the Jews, and of the devout proselytes, followed Paul and Barnabas, who talked to them, and urged them to continue in the grace of God.

Long time, therefore, they tarried there, speaking fearlessly in the Lord, who attested the word of his grace by permitting signs and wonders to be performed by their hands.

Thence they sailed to Antioch, from whence they had been commended to the grace of God, for the work which they had now completed.

"On the contrary we believe that it is by the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ that we and they shall be saved."

while Paul chose Silas, and set forth commended by the brothers to the grace of God.

When he wished to cross over into Achaia, the brothers encouraged him, and wrote to the disciples in Corinth to receive him. On his arrival he mightily helped those who through grace had believed,

But I hold not my life of any account, as dear unto myself, if only I may run my race, and accomplish the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to attest the gospel of the grace of God.

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

It is through him, even Jesus Christ our Lord, that I received grace and apostleship to promote obedience to the faith among all the Gentiles, for his name's sake;

but they are now being justified by his free grace through the deliverance that is in Christ Jesus.

Through him also we have had our access into this grace in which we have taken our stand, and are exulting in hope of the glory of God.

But the free gift is not like the transgression; for if through the transgression of that one man the rest on men died, much more did the grace of God and the gift given in his grace in the one Man, Jesus Christ, overflow unto the rest of men.

For if through the transgression of the one, death reigned as king through the one, much more shall those who receive the overflowing grace and gift of righteousness reign as kings in life through One, through Jesus Christ.

Now law was brought in so that transgression might abound; but where sin abounded, grace super-abounded;

in order that as sin has ruled as king in death, so also grace might rule as king in righteousness which issues in eternal life, through Jesus Christ our Lord,??urs!

What then shall we say? Shall we continue to abound in sin, in order that grace may come to abound?

For sin shall not lord it over you; for you are not under the rule of law, but under the rule of grace.

What then? Shall we commit an act of sin because we are not under law, but under grace? Certainly not.

In the same way also at this time there is a remnant chosen by gift of grace.

But if it is by grace, it is no longer of works; or else grace is no more grace.

For, through the grace that was given to me, I tell every man among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but so to think, as to think soberly, according to the measure of faith which God has given him.

But we have gifts differing according to the grace which was given to us. He that has the gift of prophecy, let him prophesy according to the proportion of his faith.

Still I have written unto you the more boldly, in part, by way of reminding you, because of that gift of grace which God bestowed upon me, in making me a priest of Jesus Christ unto the Gentiles.

The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ 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 am always thanking God on your behalf, for the grace of God bestowed on you in Christ Jesus;

For Christ did not think I baptized any one else. For Christ did not send me forth to baptize, but to proclaim the gospel; and that not in philosophic words, lest the Cross of Christ should be made an empty thing.

For the message of the Cross is indeed for those on their way to destruction, foolishness; but for us who are on our way to salvation it is the power of God.

According to the grace of God vouchsafed me, like a skillful master-builder, I have laid a foundation; but another will be building upon it. Let each take heed how he builds on it.

But by the grace of God I am what I am, and that grace of his, bestowed upon me, did not prove ineffectual. I labored more abundantly than all the rest, yet not I, but by the grace of God that is with me.

The grace of our Lord Jesus be with you.

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

For this is my proud boast, the testimony of my conscience, that it was in holiness and with pure motives before God, not in worldly wisdom, but in the grace of God, that I have conducted myself in the world, and above all in my relations with you.

For everything is for your sakes, so that more abundant grace, because of the thanksgiving of many voices, might overflow to the glory of God.

As a worker with him I beseech you not to receive the grace of God in vain.

Now, brothers, I wish to tell you about the grace of God which has been manifest in the churches of Macedonia.

With the result that I have been begging Titus that, as he had been the one to begin the work with you, so he should complete among you this grace also.

Now then, as you excel in everything, in faith and utterance and knowledge and all zeal and in your love to me, see to it that you excel in this grace also.

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

And God is able to give you an overflowing measure of every grace, so that all your wants of every kind may be supplied at all times, and you may give of your abundance to every good work;

Moreover, in their prayers for you they will be longing after you, because of the exceeding grace of God that is resting upon you.

but he has answered me. "My grace is sufficient for you; it is in weakness that my power is perfected."

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

Grace be to you, and peace from God our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ,

I am amazed that you are so soon shifting your ground, and deserting him who called you by the grace of Christ,

and had called me by his grace, was pleased to reveal his Son in me, so that I might preach his gospel among the Gentiles, without consulting a human being,

and when they recognized the grace which had been given to me, James and Cephas and John, then thought to be pillars, gave to Barnabas and to me the right hand of fellowship. They agreed that we should go to the Gentiles and they to the Jews.

I do not annul the grace of God; for if righteousness comes by way of the Law, then indeed Christ died Christ for nothing.

So each one of you is no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son, then an heir, too, through God's grace.

If you are being justified by law, you are cut off from Christ; you are fallen away from grace.

But I, brothers, if I "still preach circumcision," why am I still persecuted? Then surely the stumbling-block of the Cross has ceased to be an obstacle!

Those who are trying to compel you to be circumcised are such as wish to make a fair show in the flesh, only that they may not suffer persecution for the cross of Christ.

God forbid that I should glory in anything except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, upon which the world has been crucified to me and I have been crucified to the world.

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

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

and to the praise of his glorious grace which he graciously bestowed upon us in the Beloved.

so abundantly did he lavish upon us the riches of his grace in all wisdom and understanding,

even while we were dead in our trespasses, made us live together with Christ (it is by grace you have been saved).

in order that he might show to the ages to come the amazing riches of his grace by his goodness to us in Christ Jesus.

For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is God's gift.

Thus he reconciled us both in one body to God by his cross, on which he slew our enmity.

For this reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles??2 for surely you have heard of the stewardship of the grace of God entrusted to me for you?

It is of this gospel I became a minister according to the gift of the power of the grace of God, bestowed on me by the energy of his power.

To me, who am less than the least of all saints, has this grace been given, that I should proclaim among the Gentiles the gospel of the unsearchable riches of Christ;

And to each one of us was grace given according to the measure of the munificence of Christ.