Quotes About Grace

But because of His great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy,

made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in our trespasses. It is by grace you have been saved!

And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with Him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus,

in order that in the coming ages He might display the surpassing riches of His grace, demonstrated by His kindness to us in Christ Jesus.

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

not by works, so that no one can boast.

remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world.

But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near through the blood of Christ.

For He Himself is our peace, who has made the two one and has torn down the dividing wall of hostility

and reconciling both of them to God in one body through the cross, by which He extinguished their hostility.

For through Him we both have access to the Father by one Spirit.

Therefore you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of Godís household,

For this reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for the sake of you Gentiles...

Surely you have heard about the stewardship of Godís grace that was given to me for you,

that is, the mystery made known to me by revelation, as I have already written briefly.

I became a servant of this gospel by the gift of Godís grace, given me through the working of His power.

Though I am less than the least of all the saints, this grace was given me: to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,

according to the eternal purpose that He accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord.

... for this reason I bow my knees before the Father,

of the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

Now to Him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work within us,

Now to each one of us grace has been given according to the measure of the gift of Christ.

This is why it says: “When He ascended on high, He led captives away, and gave gifts to men.”

What does “He ascended” mean, except that He also descended to the lower parts of the earth?