Quotes About Grace

No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.

For I could wish that I myself were cursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my own flesh and blood,

It is not as though Godís word has failed. For not all who are descended from Israel are Israel.

So it is not the children of the flesh who are Godís children, but it is the children of the promise who are regarded as offspring.

Yet before the twins were born or had done anything good or bad, in order that Godís plan of election might stand,

not by works but by Him who calls, she was told, “The older will serve the younger.”

What then shall we say? Is God unjust? Certainly not!

For He says to Moses: “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”

So then, it does not depend on manís desire or effort, but on Godís mercy.

Therefore God has mercy on whom He wants to have mercy, and He hardens whom He wants to harden.

What if He did this to make the riches of His glory known to the vessels of His mercy, whom He prepared in advance for glory—

including us, whom He has called not only from the Jews, but also from the Gentiles?

As He says in Hosea: “I will call them ëMy Peopleí who are not My people, and I will call her ëMy Belovedí who is not My beloved,”

and, “It will happen that in the very place where it was said to them, ëYou are not My people,í they will be called ësons of the living God.í”

Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: “Though the number of the Israelites is like the sand of the sea, only the remnant will be saved.

It is just as Isaiah foretold: “Unless the Lord of Hosts had left us descendants, we would have become like Sodom, we would have resembled Gomorrah.”

What then will we say? That the Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have obtained it, a righteousness that is by faith;

but Israel, who pursued a law of righteousness, has not attained it.

Why not? Because their pursuit was not by faith, but as if it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone,

Because they were ignorant of Godís righteousness and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to Godís righteousness.

For Christ is the end of the law, to bring righteousness to everyone who believes.

But the righteousness that is by faith says: “Do not say in your heart, ëWho will ascend into heaven?í (that is, to bring Christ down)

or, ëWho will descend into the Abyss?í (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead).”

that if you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.