Jesus went into Peter's house, and there he found Peter's mother-in-law sick in bed with fever.

And he touched her hand and the fever left her, and she got up and waited on him.

Then the mother of Zebedee's sons came up to him with her sons, bowing low, to ask a favor of him.

Simon's mother-in-law was in bed, sick with a fever, and they immediately told him about her.

And he went up to her, and grasping her hand, he made her rise. And the fever left her, and she waited on them.

And a crowd of people came up and started to ask him for the usual favor.

To proclaim the year of the Lord's favor!"

When he got up and left the synagogue, he went to Simon's house. And Simon's mother-in-law was suffering with a severe attack of fever, and they asked him about her.

And he stood over her and reproved the fever and it left her, and she got up and waited on them.

And they asked him, "Master, we know that you are right in what you say and teach, and that you show no favor, but teach the way of God in sincerity.

So he asked them at what time he had begun to get better, and they said to him, "Yesterday at one o'clock the fever left him."

The apostles gave their testimony to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus with great power, and God's favor rested richly upon them.

Stephen, greatly strengthened by God's favor, did remarkable signs and wonders among the people.

and rescued him from all his troubles, and enabled him to win favor and to show wisdom when he stood before Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and he appointed him governor of Egypt and of his whole household.

When he reached there and saw the favor God had shown them, he was delighted, and encouraged them all to be resolute and steadfast in their devotion to the Lord,

and after the congregation had broken up, many of the Jews and the devout converts to Judaism went away with Paul and Barnabas, and they talked with them, and urged them to rely on the favor of God.

and from there they sailed back to Antioch, where they had first been commended to God's favor for the work which they had now finished.

But Paul selected Silas and set out, the brothers commending him to the Lord's favor.

As he wanted to cross to Greece, the brothers wrote to the disciples there, urging them to welcome him. On his arrival there he was of great service to those who through God's favor had become believers,

But my life does not matter, if I can only finish my race and do the service intrusted to me by the Lord Jesus, of declaring the good news of God's favor.

Now I commit you to the Lord, and to the message of his favor, which will build you up and give you a place among those whom God has consecrated.

and begged him as a favor to order Paul to come to Jerusalem, plotting to kill him on the way.

Publius' father happened to be sick in bed with fever and dysentery, and Paul went to see him and after praying laid his hands on him and cured him.

through whom we have received God's favor and been commissioned in his name to urge obedience and faith upon all the heathen,

Now paying a workman is not considered a favor, but an obligation,

That is why it all turns upon faith; it is to make it a matter of God's favor, so that the promise may hold good for all Abraham's descendants, not only those who are adherents of the Law, but also those who share the faith of Abraham. For he is the father of all of us;

by whom we have been introduced through faith to the favor of God that we now enjoy, and let us glory in our hope of sharing the glory of God.

But there is no comparison between God's gift and that offense. For if one man's offense made the mass of mankind die, God's mercy and his gift given through the favor of the one man Jesus Christ have far more powerfully affected mankind.

By the favor that God has shown me, I would tell every one of you not to think too highly of himself, but to think reasonably, judging himself by the degree of faith God has allowed him.

We have gifts that differ with the favor that God has shown us, whether it is that of preaching, differing with the measure of our faith,

But, just to refresh your memories, I have written you pretty boldly on some points, because of the favor God has shown me

But by God's favor I have become what I am, and the favor he showed me has not gone for nothing, but I have worked harder than any of them, although it was not really I but the favor God showed me.

For my boast is what my conscience tells me, that my relations to the world and still more to you have been marked by pure motives and godly sincerity, not by worldly shrewdness but by the favor of God.

For it is all for your benefit, in order that as God's favor reaches greater and greater numbers, it may result in more and more thanksgiving in praise of God.

As God's fellow-worker, I appeal to you, too, not to accept the favor of God and then waste it.

I must tell you, brothers, how the favor of God has been shown in the churches of Macedonia,

then they will long for you and pray for you, because of the extraordinary favor God has shown you.

and he said to me, "My favor is enough for you, for only where there is weakness is perfect strength developed." So I am perfectly willing to boast of all my weakness, so that the strength of Christ may shelter me.

On the contrary, when they saw that I had been intrusted with the good news for the heathen, just as Peter had been intrusted with it for the Jews??8 for he who actuated Peter to be an apostle to the Jews also actuated me to be one to the heathen??9 and when they recognized the favor God had shown me, James, Cephas, and John, who were regarded as pillars of the church, pledged Barnabas and me their co-operation, with the understanding that we should work among the heathen and they among the Jews.

You people who propose to be made upright by law have finished with Christ; you have lost your hold upon God's favor.

To me, the very least of all his people, this favor has been given, of preaching to the heathen the inexhaustible wealth of the Christ,

but we do see Jesus, who was "made for a little while inferior to angels, crowned with glory and honor" because he suffered death, so that by the favor of God he might taste the bitterness of death on behalf of every human being.

Be careful that no one fails to gain God's favor, or some poisonous root may come up to trouble and contaminate you all??16 some immoral or godless person like Esau, who sold his very birthright for one single meal.

But it is in your favor that you hate the practices of the Nicolaitans, as I do.