'Grace' in the Bible

it will be a nation whose language you don't understand, whose stern appearance neither shows regard nor extends grace to anyone whether old or young.

He answered, "When the child was alive, I fasted and cried. I asked myself, "Who knows? Maybe the LORD will show grace to me and the child will live.'

"If your people Israel are defeated in a battle with their enemy because they have sinned against you, when they return to you and confess to you, pray, and in this Temple they ask you to show grace to them,

but the LORD showed grace to them, displayed his compassion toward them, and turned to them due to his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. He would not destroy them or evict them from his presence up until that time.

"If your people Israel are defeated in a battle with their enemy because they have sinned against you, when they return to you and confess to you, pray, and in this Temple they ask you to show grace to them,

God also poured out his grace throughout Judah, giving them a dedicated heart to do what the king and princes had decreed according to the message from the LORD.

By the grace of our God they brought back a discerning man from the descendants of Mahli, a descendant of Israel's son Levi, along with Sherebiah and eighteen of his sons and brothers;

Though now, for a moment, grace has been shown from the LORD our God, leaving a few survivors to escape, and providing us a secure hold in his Holy Place, so that our God might enlighten us and give us relief from our servitude.

Nevertheless, in your great compassion you did not completely destroy them or abandon them, because you are a God of grace and you are merciful.

You are the most handsome of Adam's descendants; grace has anointed your lips; therefore God has blessed you forever.

For the LORD God is a sun and shield; the LORD grants grace and favor; the LORD will not withhold any good thing from those who walk blamelessly.

Though God scoffs at scoffers, he gives grace to the humble.

Good understanding produces grace, but the lifestyle of the treacherous never changes.

Human beings long for grace, and it's better to be poor than a man of deceit.

God granted to Daniel grace and compassion on the part of the chief officer.

So you, return to your God; guard grace and justice, and look to your God always.

I will pour out on the house of David and on the residents of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and of supplications, and they will look to me the one whom they pierced.'"

The Word became flesh and lived among us. We gazed on his glory, the kind of glory that belongs to the Father's unique Son, who is full of grace and truth.

because while the Law was given through Moses, grace and truth came through Jesus the Messiah.

With great power, the apostles continued to testify to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and abundant grace was on them all,

Now Stephen, full of grace and power, was performing great wonders and signs among the people.

When he arrived, he rejoiced to see what the grace of God had done, and with hearty determination he kept encouraging all of them to remain faithful to the Lord,

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

They stayed there a considerable time and continued to speak boldly for the Lord, who kept affirming his word of grace and granting signs and wonders to be done by them.

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

We certainly believe that it is through the grace of the Lord Jesus, the Messiah, that we are saved, just as they are."

while Paul chose Silas and left after the brothers had entrusted him to the grace of the Lord.

When Apollos wanted to cross over to Achaia, the brothers wrote to the disciples there, urging them to welcome him. On his arrival he greatly helped those who, through God's grace, had believed.

But I don't place any value on my life, if only I can finish my race and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus of testifying to the gospel of God's grace.

"I'm now entrusting you to God and to the message of his grace, which is able to build you up and secure for you an inheritance among all who are sanctified.

Through him we received grace and a commission as an apostle to bring about faithful obedience among all the gentiles for the sake of his name.

To: Everyone in Rome, loved by God and called to be holy. May grace and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus, the Messiah, be yours!

By his grace they are justified freely through the redemption that is in the Messiah Jesus,

Therefore, the promise is based on faith, so that it may be a matter of grace and may be guaranteed for all of Abraham's descendants not only for those who were given the Law, but also for those who share the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all.

Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace by which we have been established, and we boast because of our hope in God's glory.

But God's free gift is not like Adam's offense. For if many people died as the result of one man's offense, how much more have God's grace and the free gift given through the kindness of one man, Jesus the Messiah, been showered on many people!

For if, through one man, death ruled because of that man's offense, how much more will those who receive such overflowing grace and the gift of righteousness rule in life because of one man, Jesus the Messiah!

Now the Law crept in so that the offense would increase. But where sin increased, grace increased even more,

so that, just as sin ruled by bringing death, so also grace might rule by bringing justification that results in eternal life through Jesus the Messiah, our Lord.

What should we say, then? Should we go on sinning so that grace may increase?

For sin will not have mastery over you, because you are not under Law but under grace.

What, then, does this mean? Should we go on sinning because we are not under Law but under grace? Of course not!

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

But if this is by grace, then it is no longer on the basis of actions. Otherwise, grace would no longer be grace.

For by the grace given to me I ask every one of you not to think of yourself more highly than you should think, rather to think of yourself with sober judgment on the measure of faith that God has assigned each of you.

We have different gifts based on the grace that was given to us. So if your gift is prophecy, use your gift in proportion to your faith.

However, on some points I have written to you rather boldly, both as a reminder to you and because of the grace given me by God

The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. May the grace of our Lord Jesus, the Messiah, be with all of you!

May the grace of our Lord Jesus, the Messiah, be with all of you!

May grace and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus, the Messiah, be yours!

I always thank my God for you because of the grace of God given you by the Messiah Jesus.

As an expert builder using the grace that God gave me, I laid the foundation, and someone else is building on it. But each person must be careful how he builds on it.

But by God's grace I am what I am, and his grace shown to me was not wasted. Instead, I worked harder than all the others not I, of course, but God's grace that was with me.

May the grace of the Lord Jesus be with you!

May grace and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus, the Messiah, be yours!

For this is what we boast about: Our conscience testifies that we have conducted ourselves in the world with pure motives and godly sincerity, without earthly wisdom but with God's grace especially toward you.

All this is for your sake so that, as his grace spreads, more and more people will give thanks and glorify God.

Since, then, we are working with God, we plead with you not to accept God's grace in vain.

We want you to know, brothers, about God's grace that was given to the churches of Macedonia.

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

And so in their prayers for you they will long for you because of God's exceptional grace that was shown to you.

but he has told me, "My grace is all you need, because my power is perfected in weakness." Therefore, I will most happily boast about my weaknesses, so that the Messiah's power may rest on me.

May the grace of the Lord Jesus the Messiah, the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with all of you!

May grace and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus, the Messiah, be yours!

I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you by the grace of the Messiah and, instead, are following a different gospel,

But when God, who set me apart before I was born and who called me by his grace, was pleased

So when James, Cephas, and John (who were reputed to be leaders) recognized the grace that had been given me, they gave Barnabas and me the right hand of fellowship, agreeing that we should go to the gentiles and they to the circumcised.

I do not misapply God's grace, for if righteousness comes about by doing what the Law requires, then the Messiah died for nothing.

Those of you who are trying to be justified by the Law have been cut off from the Messiah. You have fallen away from grace.

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

May grace and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus, the Messiah, be yours!

so that we would praise his glorious grace that he gave us in the Beloved One.

In union with him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our offenses, according to the riches of God's grace

even when we were dead because of our offenses, made us alive together with the Messiah (by grace you have been saved),

so that in the coming ages he might display the limitless riches of his grace that comes to us through his kindness in the Messiah Jesus.

For by such grace you have been saved through faith. This does not come from you; it is the gift of God

Surely you have heard about the responsibility of administering God's grace that was given to me on your behalf,

I have become a servant of this gospel according to the gift of God's grace that was given me by the working of his power.

To me, the very least of all the saints, this grace was given so that I might proclaim to the gentiles the immeasurable wealth of the Messiah

Now to each one of us grace has been given proportionate to the measure of the Messiah's gift.

Let no filthy talk be heard from your mouths, but only what is good for building up people and meeting the need of the moment. This way you will administer grace to those who hear you.

May grace be with all who sincerely love the Lord Jesus, the Messiah!

May grace and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus, the Messiah, be yours!

May the grace of the Lord Jesus, the Messiah, be with your spirit! Amen.

To: The holy and faithful brothers in Colossae who are in union with the Messiah. May grace and peace from God our Father be yours!

that has come to you. Just as it is bearing fruit and spreading all over the world, so it has been doing among you from the day you heard it and came to know the grace of God in truth.

This greeting is written with my own signature "Paul." Remember that I remain imprisoned. May grace be with you! Amen.

From: Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy. To: The church of the Thessalonians in union with God the Father and the Lord Jesus, the Messiah. May grace and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus, the Messiah, be yours!

May the grace of our Lord Jesus, the Messiah, be with you! Amen.

May grace and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus, the Messiah, be yours!

That way the name of our Lord Jesus will be glorified by you, and you by him, according to the grace of our God and Lord, Jesus, the Messiah.

May our Lord Jesus, the Messiah himself, and may God our Father, who loved us and by his grace gave us eternal comfort and good hope,

May the grace of our Lord Jesus, the Messiah, be with all of you. Amen.

To: Timothy, my genuine child in the faith. May grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and the Messiah Jesus, our Lord, be yours!

and the grace of our Lord overflowed toward me, along with the faith and love that are in the Messiah Jesus.

Although some claim to have it, they have abandoned the faith. May grace be with all of you!

To: Timothy, my dear child. May grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and the Messiah Jesus our Lord be yours!

He saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our own accomplishments, but according to his own purpose and the grace that was given to us in the Messiah Jesus before time began.

Now, however, that grace has been revealed through the coming of our Savior the Messiah Jesus, who has destroyed death and through the gospel has brought life and release from death into full view.

As for you, my child, be strong by the grace that is in the Messiah Jesus.